Are mixed marriages genetically necessary?
Some of the intellectuals of our community and those who have excelled in their own secular fields have, unfortunately, been MISGUIDING the young members of our community by advocating mixed marriages. A few have taken the extreme stand that mixed marriages are necessary in order to inject new and healthy blood so that the community would survive. There is no doubt that such misguided advice from respected members of our community has utterly CONFUSED the younger generation and has thwarted the attempts of the Parsi Punchayet. Bombay. and other well-meaning social organisations at bringing their own people together and encouraging Parsis to marry within themselves. Nevertheless, it is necessary to convince the young and the impressionable that such advice, if followed, would totally destroy the identity of the Parsi community within the next couple of generations and that it is wrong to suggest that marriages within the community lead to degeneration. A small item was published in one
