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Burjor Aibara (left) and Merzi Kerawalla
(right) share a startling story. Burjor is now the Panthaki (head) of
the Bangalore fire temple, and performs the nirangdin kriya, the highest
liturgy. Merzi is a commerce graduate, lives in Kalyan and is a part-time
priest. Dadar Parsi Youth Assembly School, Bombay 1984. |
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Rayomand Jijina answers a question
in the Dadar Parsi Youth Assembly classroom where madressa boys study
the SSC syllabus. A former teacher recalls that Rayomand Jijina was always
gentle, polite, soft-spoken - "the kind of student you never see
nowadays." Now 22 years old, he is studying to be a chartered acccountant,
and is a part-time priest in Surat. Dadar Parsi Youth Assembly School,
Bombay 1984. |
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