How India makes Parsi babies

[Serpentine]

the main issue is the girls have too high expectation. Very few community went extinct that way, parsis might be first.
May be iranians can help.

Their connection to India is more than it is to Iran I think, because of living there for hundreds of years. Maybe a proper gov-backed campaign can help promote the idea of having early marriages and also babies. Iran can also help if there is a request by Indian gov.

 

[jamahir]

its sponsored by ministry of minority affairs, not health& family planning. Its the ministry's mandate to look after interest of minority communities.

i think that ministry should be scrapped... i being from a minority community am saying that.

but the parsis can teach other indians to be entreprenuerial and ambitious.

What are the older religions

including the monotheist zoroastrianism of the parsis.

 

[midnightmasala]

i think that ministry should be scrapped... i being from a minority community am saying that.

but the parsis can teach other indians to be entreprenuerial and ambitious.



including buddhism and the monotheist zoroastrianism of the parsis.

I disagree. The non dogmatic religions make you think and have shown that religion is a mind game. The new religions are just rule based on lies.

 

[livingdead]

Their connection to India is more than it is to Iran I think, because of living there for hundreds of years. Maybe a proper gov-backed campaign can help promote the idea of having early marriages and also babies. Iran can also help if there is a request by Indian gov.

Iran can help repenish the stock.. .. the lack of genetic diversity might be a problem.
Parsis wont marry natives, we are beneath them it seems. They are a small closed community, they know about their problem better than govt.

What are the older religions. I think it's the newer religion that must v be jettisoned since they only cause strife and human sufferings.

7th century ad is cut off point.. sorry but you have to die.

 

[doppelganger]

i think that ministry should be scrapped... i being from a minority community am saying that.

You are a muslim bro. A community numbering as much as the population of the continent of Europe is not exactly a minority. Why do you want to continue being called as such?

but the parsis can teach other indians to be entreprenuerial and ambitious.

To be honest to me they are a lot like Jews. They make a lot of money for themselves. The country benefits as an indirect consequence. Does not mean they are nationalists or are doing it for the nation per se.

Would be happy to be corrected.

 

[jaunty]

Parsis wont marry natives, we are beneath them it seems.

A lot of Parsis marry outside their community and that is one of the reasons for their decreasing number as far as I know because they are not considered a part of that community after that.

 

[Serpentine]

Iran can help repenish the stock.. .. the lack of genetic diversity might be a problem.
Parsis wont marry natives, we are beneath them it seems. They are a small closed community, they know about their problem better than govt.

That's very illogical of them to refuse to marry the locals, and they should witness their own extinction if this continues. But I suppose they'll soon come to their senses after feeling the danger.

 

[jamahir]

I disagree. The non dogmatic religions make you think and have shown that religion is a mind game. The new religions are just rule based on lies.

i don't want to lead the thread away but islam and sikhism are the most questioning ( from what little i know of sikhism ) and the simplest... islam is the closest to atheism.

many would say buddhism but it inflicts difficulties on its followers and does not present any real solutions or a concrete political/economic/social system.

having said that, no older religion ( i include sikhism too ) is suitable for future humanity.

 

[doppelganger]

A lot of Parsis marry outside their community and that is one of the reasons for their decreasing number as far as I know because they are not considered a part of that community after that.

So essentially what the Govt. of India is doing (using our money), is selective breeding. Like dogs and horses or bulls or tigers and lions or maybe the panda?

 

[jamahir]

You are a muslim bro. A community numbering as much as the population of the continent of Europe is not exactly a minority. Why do you want to continue being called as such?

while you are right that 14 percent is not that much of a minority, many would insist it is and the argument would circle ad nauseum... best is scrap the ministry and bring in a uniform civil code in consultation with the progressives.

To be honest to me they are a lot like Jews. They make a lot of money for themselves. The country benefits as an indirect consequence. Does not mean they are nationalists or are doing it for the nation per se.

Would be happy to be corrected.

no, it is true.

 

[jaunty]

So essentially what the Govt. of India is doing (using our money), is selective breeding. Like dogs and horses or bulls or tigers and lions or maybe the panda?

I am not entirely sure about this program either. Parsis are not a persecuted community in India, in fact they are probably the most affluent community. It is one thing to help a community from outside danger and another to encourage selective breeding. If their fate is of a natural extinction, so be it. It would be sad but something unavoidable.

 

[doppelganger]

I am not entirely sure about this program either. Parsis are not a persecuted community in India, in fact they are probably the most affluent community. It is one thing to help a community from outside danger and another to encourage selective breeding. If their fate is of a natural extinction, so be it. It would be sad but something unavoidable.

To me it smacks of state sanctioned apartheid. Someone is giving Modi ji some weird inputs.

Could it be Smriti Irani being married to a Parsi?

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

There has been more concern by the non-Parsis and Indian government than by the Parsi authorities by themselves on decline of Parsi population. They have to loosen their rules and allow intermarriages.

 

[Gibbs]

There is a Parsi community in Sri Lanka as well, Though significantly smaller.. But they stick to thier customs like funeral rituals etc..

The Parsi Community of Sri Lanka

The Sunday Times Plus Section

 

[doppelganger]

Do Parsees allow the non Parsee spouse and the progeny thereof into the community if he or she agrees to convert? Like Muslims.