The navjote of Chaitanya Kersi Jaikaria, grandson of former president of the Delhi Parsi Anjuman and current member of the National Commission for Minorities Dadi Mistry and his wife Nergish (see "A navjote in Delhi,” Events and Personalities, Parsiana, October 7, 2016), has raised the hackles of many in the community who are opposed to the children of Parsi women married to non-Parsis being accepted into the fold.
One Nariman A. Mody, who has studied Avesta and Pahlavi, wrote to the trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) on October 24, 2016 that the ceremony, performed by Ervad Khushroo Madon from......