Acceptance, rather than rejection should be the norm for the intermarried and their progeny
Ava Khullar
Following the 2001 census report for the community, Parsiana requested Delhi-based demographer Ava Khullar to analyze the census findings.
The first installment, pertaining to the census findings, was carried in the January 2005 issue of Parsiana.The second part gave a background to the demographic decline and this concluding section deals with interfaith marriages, community attitudes and examples from other communities that have dealt constructively with the issue of demography.
A direct result of my presentation on demography at the executive council meeting of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India in 1978 was the decision to undertake a study of the......