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Opinion Articles
At a Time When the Battles of India’s Future Will Be Fought in its Courts, We Will Miss Fali Nariman
He was a liberal in the constitutional sense of the word, defending the fundamental rights of citizens against an...
Flowering The Youth Of The Community
by Eruch B. Desai Our illustrious ancestors with dedication and concern for the community did yeoman service to the succeeding generations by their various acts replete with sane advice, wisdom,...
Historic Association of Zarathushti Mobeds
by Roxan Aspi Driver in the Jam-e-Jamshed Jimmy Mistry has shown that he can accomplish what he sets out to. A man of action, and not just intention, barely a couple of months after the launch of...
Why Is The Truth About Conversion Not Told?
by Jamsheed Kanga in The Jam-e-Jamshed In a recent book, “Breaking the spell: Religion as a national phenomenon” the author Daniel C Dennett explains by an interesting analogy how...
“Zarathustra” the Sculpture
Post UPDATED since original posting. Read ahead. Today morning I received a forwarded email from Adil Nariman, from Sydney Australia. It brought to my attention, the events that will lead to the...
Life without Parsis would be like bun without maska
And for the last Saturday before Parsi New Year, the fifth without Busybee, a few stray thoughts. by Farzana Contractor | Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:11:0 IST Without doubt, life without Parsis...
The Truth About Secret Societies
Parsi (Persian Zoroastrianism) influence is also seen in the Kusti ritual where each day they would tie a sacred cord around their waist. The fact that the Templars were accused of holding a ritual...
Parsi Boy In A Red T-Shirt
So they were not Muslims. That little boy who loved cricket and who vanished in that post-Godhra carnage, belonging to a perfectly hardworking, reasonably honest middle class locality, was not a...
Ex-CU Prof. Takes Lit Hum to Harvard
Columbia Daily Spectator – New York City,NY,USA … Aristophanes’ Lysistrata has been replaced with The Frogs, and the Bhagavad-Gita and The Gathas of Zarathustra appear halfway...
Fascist and Taliban Trends: SOLI LOQUIES
Fanaticism has escalated alarmingly. Freedom of expression is under siege. One cannot express heterodox opinions except on pain of legal penalties, persecution and social ostracism. Movie star...
Chaos Paradox
… The temple is as tranquil as the market is chaotic, and at the Hanging Gardens she points out a low wall behind which the Parsee sect allow their dead to be … Continue reading at...
Blog QUAKE Day
DesiPundit has sent out a “call to arms” to raise awareness about the recent quake in Kashmir. They are running a continuously updating sticky post on the various ways and means that...
SOLI LOQUIES: Death penalty
Soli Sorabjee in the Indian Express Death penalty October 23, 2005 Debate about the abolition of the death penalty is unending. It has been abolished in practically every European country and in the...
SOLI LOQUIES: Rising intolerance
Soli Sorabjee in the Indian Express Rising intolerance October 11, 2005 The rise of intolerance is alarming. Some years back, Zairus Banaji, because of his critical remarks about Narender Modi, was...
SOLI LOQUIES: Women in society
Soli Sorabjee in The Indian Express Women in society September 11, 2005 There was a time when no less a person than Thomas Jefferson, the principal architect of the US Constitution, believed in the...
SOLI LOQUIY: Judiciary and Parliament
Soli Sorabjee in The Indian Express. Judiciary and Parliament August 28, 2005 The Supreme Court judgement dealing with minority educational institutions has evoked severe criticisms. What is amazing...
SOLI LOQUIES: Discrimination in criminal justice
Soli Sorabjee, a brilliant and eminent jurist in India writes a monthly column in the Indian Express. The first of the colums appeared in August and is titled Discrimination in criminal justice...
They are a mix of Sikh and Parsee;…
They are a mix of Sikh and Parsee; a combination science would pay anything to study, and often does. Continue reading at TheAsianAge
A View from the “Outside”
Sakshi Juneja, shares her personl experience with Parsis and writes about what endears her to this “role model” community I think of the Parsi community in India as a role model for the...
ARZ opens doors to families of Parsis married outside religion
Afternoon Dispatch and Courier …Zoroastrianism should survive even if Parsis don’t….
Hijacking Religion and Culture
…….about a new universal temple of worship for Zoroastrians, not necessarily Parsis. This is as close as it gets to the bastardization of religion and the hijacking of culture for...
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Universal Fire Temple for Worship of All Zoroastrians