rangeelaraja Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 (edited) For a community that is negligible part of our population in relative terms --less than 0.005 % of our population - the contribution Parsis have made to nation building in India is ENORMOUS. From industry and commerce ( Tatas, Godrej, Wadias ) to law ( Soli Sorabjee, Nani Palkhivala ) to.. Science and Tech ( Homi Bhabha ) to the army ( who can ever forget the great Sam Maneckshaw ), to arts ( Zubin Mehta )... It is a very long list for such a negligibly small-community....that is dwindling to extinction. They are a model minority ( no reservation business, no minority rights dramebaazi ). They are perpetual givers, not takers. I wish the BJP govt did whatever they could - speaking to leaders of the community at the highest level and asking them to influence their community to procreate -- incentivize them to procreate. India would be a much poorer and different country without the Parsis. They are stalwarts of our country. It is a pity that there are only 60,000- 70,000 parsis left in India. Edited March 27, 2022 by rangeelaraja Under_Score 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf1gp_1 Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 whats the expectation from govt here ? ban selling condoms to parsis or deploy 1 karya karta at each parsi household who shouts 'come on you can do it' entire night. Singh bling, ThirtyD., beetle and 6 others 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnterTheVoid Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 What exactly is the government supposed to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 (edited) They can reform and do ghar wapsi of all those who married outside of their community, even Maryam Jinnah was a Parsi and their daughter also married a Parsi into the Wadia family of Bombay Dyeing business Edited March 27, 2022 by coffee_rules beetle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangeelaraja Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 10 hours ago, EnterTheVoid said: What exactly is the government supposed to do? Govt can request Tatas, godrejs and Wadias influence the Parsi community to marry early and reproduce by offering incentives such as extremely well paying corporate jobs in their firms - subsidized by GoI. One of the main reasons Parsis are shrinking is because they don’t marry till they are super well settled financially - well in their 40s -by then it becomes very difficult to reproduce - mostly. Govt can address this concern by offering massive salaries via plum jobs at these conglomerates. Under_Score 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangeelaraja Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 7 hours ago, coffee_rules said: They can reform and do ghar wapsi of all those who married outside of their community, even Maryam Jinnah was a Parsi and their daughter also married a Parsi into the Wadia family of Bombay Dyeing business that is extremely rare. Parsis very very rarely marry outside their community anyway Under_Score 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 54 minutes ago, rangeelaraja said: that is extremely rare. Parsis very very rarely marry outside their community anyway But whoever marries outsid the community gets ostracized and considered outside of religion, Ghar wapsi will increase their dwindling numbers beetle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravishingravi Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 1 hour ago, rangeelaraja said: that is extremely rare. Parsis very very rarely marry outside their community anyway That was true some time back. Now no more. Clarke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 This is a community related issue.. Not sure what GOI can do about it. Let GOI do something about CAA NRC.. The elephant in the room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarke Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Its typical of industrious societies (and hence communities ?) to have falling birth rates, besides some traditional practices also hurting the suggested goal. Would they still be as industrious & focused if they started going the rabbit route ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 https://www.wionews.com/india-news/indias-parsis-multiply-slowly-with-help-from-govt-funded-ivf-programme-23801 India's Parsis multiply, slowly, with help from govt-funded IVF programme Koshish to kia... Parsis are apparently less fertile ...marry late and do not accept children from interreligious marriages as parsis. What can the govt do? The govt has also tried increasing the population of vultures...although it has nothing to do with increasing their population. Sad that such a wondeful , hardworking , gentle community is endangered. EnterTheVoid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 It is not like they are being hunted by cannibals :) We are not talking about Bengal tigers right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordPrabhzy Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 7:22 PM, beetle said: https://www.wionews.com/india-news/indias-parsis-multiply-slowly-with-help-from-govt-funded-ivf-programme-23801 India's Parsis multiply, slowly, with help from govt-funded IVF programme Koshish to kia... Parsis are apparently less fertile ...marry late and do not accept children from interreligious marriages as parsis. What can the govt do? The govt has also tried increasing the population of vultures...although it has nothing to do with increasing their population. Sad that such a wondeful , hardworking , gentle community is endangered. If all parsi ladies are like this, I am ready to take one for the team and volunteer my champion sperm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkt.india Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 On 3/30/2022 at 12:10 AM, LordPrabhzy said: If all parsi ladies are like this, I am ready to take one for the team and volunteer my champion sperm Tara Sutaria too is parsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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