Let us part amicably

Our community’s matters should be well guarded and kept within the community. Let us not become a laughing stock. We will lose the respect we held amongst others. Why should we take our troubles to outsiders? Aren’t we capable of tackling our own issues and solving our own problems?
In my opinion, we love to create problems. Why should we do so deliberately? The ultra-mods can do whatever they wish, the way they want to, without insisting or indirectly compelling the traditionalists and insulting them by calling them dhongis (pretenders). We must remember that it is because of such strict rules that we have survived till today; or we would have been assimilated into the mainstream, becoming Hindus, Muslims or Christians.
If wish we to part, let us part amicably. Like the Prayer Hall at the Worli crematorium, build new agiaries where the modernists can worship the way they wish. Let us use our common sense, if we cannot use wisdom, and part in a friendly way.
ARMIN DUTIA MOTASHAW
Ahmedabad
armindutiamotashaw@gmail.com

The editors reply:
So many fire temples in India are bereft of worshippers as it is.