Parsis don’t seem to want to wake up from their deep slumber, whether it concerns our dwindling numbers or religion. Healthy and reasonably well off couples should produce two children — a vital aspect of demography.
If no children are born, who will practice our religion? Who will maintain our religious institutions, perform religious rites, preserve our religious-racial-sociological identity?
It is good that we do not have a Parsi Pope. It is our collective responsibility to resolve these two formidable problems. And to do so we have to do much more for all our priests before we go into oblivion.
B. T. DASTUR
dasturbehram@gmail.com
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