Not just the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), which has initiated a mobed amelioration scheme, but the entire community should have woken up to the disaster looming on the Parsi horizon from the neglect of our mobeds. Many of them have to keep the wolf away from the door on a daily basis and face a nightmare after retirement.
Once the priests vanish, the bedrock of rituals, ceremonies and the religion itself will sink.
The BPP dwells not just on the paucity of priests for performing major ceremonies (pav mahal, vendidad, nirangdin and tano poorvani kriya for consecration of the dakhmas) but on......