Future of present-day controversies

Fast forward to 2072. No wishful thinking, no bias, just dispassionate crystal gazing.
There are 45,000 Parsis in the world; 25,000 in India. Parsis, like other communities, may be legally empowered to adopt any child who will enjoy the same civil rights as the natural born. Possibly such adopted children will be regarded as Parsi Zoroastrian. A scheme may emerge to reverse the demographic decline by arranging surrogate mothers to bear children of Parsi fathers. The upbringing of these children will be professionally assisted.
Children of both interfaith married men and women will almost certainly be regarded under the law as Parsi Zoroastrians, including as beneficiaries of "Parsis only” charities. Spouses of interfaith married Parsis who affirm that they wish to follow the Zoroastrian faith and are successfully examined by a panel of interviewers to ascertain their bona fides may enjoy some limited rights. Spouses though are unlikely to be entitled as beneficiaries of "Parsis only” charities.

Illustration by Farzana Cooper

The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) will be a professionally managed charity. It will be a cash rich community trust. Trusteeship elections will be done away with. Parsi politics will finally die. BPP trustees will be selected by reputed management firms and handsomely paid for their full-time services. Transgender trustees are likely. Housing colonies will become self-governing.
State of the art AI (artificial intelligence) driven solar panels will deliver customized heat to each corpse whose rate of disposal will be continuously monitored. Disposal, even during the monsoons, will not take more than six hours. Relatives of the deceased will themselves consign the body to the dakhmas which will be antiseptically clean. Doongerwadi workers will disappear. The bar on prayers at Doongerwadi for those opting for alternative methods of disposal of the dead may cease.
Highly paid priests, of both genders, will be in demand. The distinction between behdin and athornan would have been obliterated. Ceremonies will be mostly performed online. The power of Zoroastrian mantras and rituals will become universally popular as an alternative method of healing. Reputed scholars will classify Zoroastrian mantras and rituals as legitimate white magic. Ancient rituals will make a popular comeback. Magic and color will return to the faith. Extra religious worship may consequently decline.
The fires of agiaries remaining locked due to absence of footfalls will be merged and the premises turned into mini museums showcasing Zoroastrian heritage. Professional priests will self-govern the surviving fire temples, replacing doddering busybodies. Intelligent conservatism will replace ultra-orthodox thinking. In order to preserve uniqueness, and not due to any theological injunction, entry to fire temples will still be restricted to Parsi Zoroastrians.
Membership of the Ripon Club may be open to all irrespective of color, caste, creed or sex. The Club may serve dhansak sushi on Wednesdays. A majority of Parsis may turn vegan; kid gosht made out of plant food is more delicious. Parsi Dairy Farm, by then 156 years old, will continue to sell agharni no larvo to celebrate baby showers and wannabe mothers will still want to consume its silver covered tip.
The editor in chief of this publication could be a non Parsi residing in Chicago. Parsis will continue to swear sweetly. Ghelsappo may be included in the Oxford Concise Dictionary as vernacular slang. Its more aggressive cousin however would continue to be excluded as being offensive both to those who are intellectually differently abled as also in deference to the serial fornicators.