So it’s been a Parsi festival dominated week — Pateti on Tuesday, Navroze on Wednesday and Kodad Saal tomorrow. The announcement last month that the Zarathustrian population had reduced alarmingly to 44,000, caused much consternation.

One senior gent, stating the obvious, wailed, “At one lakh, we were deemed a tribe, at this rate we will dwindle to a team. We will be ekdum extinct.”