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Face the final curtain

It was a poignant moment when Kayo Billimoria (pictured, Photo: Aavo Mari Saathe image library) sang Frank Sinatra’s I Did it my Way at a Navroz program at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Nothing brought home the realization that the Parsi community is close to its end as the lyrics of this sad song. A community that once sneered at the absence of a scientific temper in the religious practices of its sister communities, quoting for support some of the rituals prescribed in the Vendidad, now quotes (and misreads) that same collection of practices to justify its obscurantist......



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