Category: Culture

Bringing up the mediums: Parsi Mobeds

Parents make the heartbreaking decision to send their children to residential schools for various material reasons. It’s seldom for a cause. But last year, parents of 30 Parsi children decided that the cause of serving the community was worthy enough. So they packed them off, some of them only about six years old, to the… Continue reading Bringing up the mediums: Parsi Mobeds

Parsis Are Australia’s most diligent workers

AT last the question on everybody’s lips has been answered: The hardest working believers in Australia are are Zoroastrians. With just two religious holidays a year, the followers of the prophet Zoroaster are four times as diligent as Muslims, five times more than Hindus, and put the Jews and Orthodox Christians to shame. While workplace… Continue reading Parsis Are Australia’s most diligent workers

Perin Ferrao: Activist refused to accept a woman’s lot in India

Even as a youngster Perin Ferrao never accepted the conventional view in her native India that women were subordinate to men. Committed all her life to the emancipation of women, the Montreal teacher and former international secretary of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) was 80 when she died at her home in Dollard… Continue reading Perin Ferrao: Activist refused to accept a woman’s lot in India

Zoroastrianism dying out in modern times

Many young boys being trained as priests will instead follow other careers Like most 12-year-old boys, Rayan Dastoor watches movies, goes to school and surfs the Internet for the latest tunes by Linkin Park. But Rayan also spends five hours a day in prayer sessions and religious studies. His homework includes memorizing sacred scriptures in… Continue reading Zoroastrianism dying out in modern times

Exit mobile version