Missing Parsi website

If you are desperately looking for a missing friend or uncle, 40-year-old Bombay born management graduate Ader Gandi is the person to contact via his website themissingparsi.com which he set up on October 1, 2005 along with Yazdi Tantra. Now a US citizen and resident of San Francisco, California, Gandi runs a mortgage brokering firm there. But his service to the community continues with as much fervor as when he started.

"Every one in two missing Parsi cases referred to us gets solved,” Gandi claims on his website which he urges fellow community members to bookmark, visit often and tell other Parsis and Zoroastrians about. "Our idea behind the themissing parsi. com is simple: use the power of the Internet to help fellow Parsis and Zoroastrians connect with people they have lost touch with.

This idea came to me as a result of the many requests from fellow Parsis all over the world who would ask if I knew of someone they used to know, who they had since lost touch with, and could I help them find the person. I would get these requests because I am the founder of www.theparsichron icle.com, which is visited by 300 people daily,” Gandi reveals on his website.

People are invited to e-mail such requests at ader@gandi.com, providing him with the details of the missing person such as approximate age, how and where the seeker knew them from, their married and maiden names, when and where the last contact was, along with the names of mutual friends. The subject line of the e-mail should read "Missing Parsi.” This information will be posted on the website, which is now being read by 100 Parsis daily. Hopefully one of them will know the whereabouts of the person sought and respond.

The website promises to provide "a comprehensive listing of all electronic directories of Parsis and Zoroastrians available on the Internet... This is a work in progress that needs your help. If you are aware of additional electronic Parsi Zoroastrian directories, please send me an e-mail… and I will add them to the list.” All known web resources of tracking down missing people will also be provided, for which he welcomes comments and suggestions. Users can subscribe to future news about Parsis and Zoroastrians by e-mailing adergandi@gmail.com

At times, Gandi’s work lands him in a spot, reveals a report in the Hindustan Times (HT) of August 10, 2008. "I might unknowingly help a girl find her former boyfriend who subsequently got married. But I cannot do anything in such situations and have to face the flak,” he told HT.