Recently a 70-year-old friend in Hyderabad undertook the behdin pasban course in Bombay which will qualify him to perform some religious ceremonies. My friend was very happy with the course as it would help counter the great shortage of qualified Zoroastrian priests. Since the name of the course is behdin pasban, is this course open to only behdins, debarring athornans? If not, it should be called Zarathushti pasban.
Yet another unreasonable practice among Parsis is that only boys from athornan families can undergo navar and maratab training which will qualify them to practice as priests. Boys from behdin families are denied......