“The racial divide”

Your editorial "The racial divide” (Parsiana, July 21, 2006) raises basic questions to which so far there are no official answers.

I believe, however, that all these questions relating to interfaith marriages, induction of their progeny into the Zoroastrian faith and after death ceremonies will be rendered meaningless in time because as it is rightly said there is no stopping an idea when its time has come.

The world and all of humanity is today in a state of turmoil but racial discrimination and vaguely pronounced theories about polluting the purest of the pure (which cannot ever be polluted) will also pass on in history but, as you rightly say, is this the manner in which we wish to seclude ourselves from the rest of humanity?

Can we prosper as a community and as a religion by traveling along this narrow little road?

JEHANGIR R. J. CAMA

Ahmedabad