With the Poona Parsi Panchayat unanimously endorsing the "Memorandum of Disagreement” (see "World body stymied,” Parsiana, January 2005) and more anjumans likely to follow suit, the chances of the proposed world body being formed are as likely as that of the vultures returning to doongerwadi.
The Memorandum petitions, amongst other things, that the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) not join the world body unless membership is by race and religion and not religion alone. In other words, only those associations whose membership consists of Parsi and Irani Zoroastrians would be eligible to membership of the proposed global alliance.......