NextGenNow supports and is proud to collaborate with
Dinyar Patel, Ph.D. candidate, Modern South Asia, at Harvard University. We are pleased to showcase his striking research (below) on understanding Parsi population decline in India and the broader impact to the worldwide Parsi Zarathushti community. Late marriages, late pregnancies and too few couples having more than one child per family have led to stark population decline and sadly the continuation of a downward trajectory for our tiny but storied community since the late 1800s. The good news, in plain English, is that the trend is reversible and it means marrying younger and having more children, not just in India, but around the world.
