Celebrating the Second Zoroastrian Children’s Day with an
assemblage of 2,000 youngsters, the Zoroastrian Children’s Foundation
plans to include children from abroad
The long line of buses with Zoroastrian Children’s Day banners might have intrigued many a morning walker at Marine Drive on a crisp, sunny yet smoggy winter day in Bombay. The vast Parsee Gymkhana grounds had been covered with a shamiana; the bright toran at the entrance and the portrait of Lord Zarathushtra proclaimed the Parsi presence.
Inside the shamiana, the blues, browns and beige of the school uniforms of almost 2,000 Zoroastrian children from Std III to Std X, seated row upon row, mingled with the reds and purples of kor saris of teachers and volunteers watching over them and......