India, July 27 -- Come October, 'Parsiana' will 'go gentle into that good night'. Unheeding of its legion of admirers who now "rage, rage against the dying of the light" aka its imminent closure. For 52 years, this doughty community magazine has served the dwindling Indian Parsi population and its spreading diaspora. Mirror, path-guider, trend-tracker, back-patter, call-outer -- and therefore as much hackle-raiser as praise-getter. But as with our qaum, age and ill-health have caught up with its intrepid editor, Jehangir Patel -- and his team too. He rues, "I'm 80. So is one of our senior editors; our managing editor is 65." Premature deaths also rang the knell. Earlier this year, its multi-talented senior editor Farrokh Jijina succumbed ...
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