Newsline article on Pakistani Parsis: “The Exodus” "Colloquially known as Parsis, Zoroastrians in Pakistan seem to be on a fast track to leaving the country. With, according to most community leaders, almost 95% of the younger generation moving away, very few members of this unique community remain in Pakistan." Click to read the entire article. Courtesy : Dinyar Patel

... ). The Balts (Latvians and Lithuanians) and Slavs (Russians and Ukrainians, including Belarusians) are from the Finns. Finns and Azeris are Iranian people. They are a mix of the Armenians, the Parsis and the Punjabis of India. The Parsis and Punjabis mixed together to form the Pashtuns or Afghans of Afghanistan, including handsome Datuk Shah Rukh Khan and the Kashmiris such as Rahul Gandhi.

... So was the case of Punjabi and Urdu languages, said Hanspal. Minorities constitute about 4.4 percent of states population with Muslims being the largest minority community, followed by Sikhs, Buddhists and Christians. There were practically no Parsis in Himachal, said Angma, the member commission incharge for the state. Later the commission members also met Governor Prabha Rao in the Raj Bhavan.

... . He's generally jovial, soft-spoken and well mannered and can be good fun to hang out with if you are looking for easygoing company to, say, a Mithunda film. Then come Shahan (Bawa, as all Parsis are affectionately known in these parts) and Abhay (Marwadi, as those from remote Rajasthan are not-so-affectionately known in these parts). Bawa's got an old Jawa, his USP. He's also got an ...

... pneumonia. Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on the island of Zanzibar (then a British Protectorate) on 5 September 1946. Feddie's parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were Indian Parsis, and they had moved to Zanzibar for Bomi's job as a cashier in the British Colonial Office. The family fled Zanzibar in 1964 when the recently elected government was overthrown and Zanzibar (briefly ...

At the Huffington Post, Trita Parsi argues that the US can and should stop Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. He even cites this precedent: On August 2, 1990, almost a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Iron Curtain divide, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Within months, the George H. W. Bush administration carefully assembled a coalition of states under the UN ...

... Also the Parsi religion was started by the same group of people who wrote the Vedas. Their earliest book Avesta has striking similarities with not only the language but also the content of the Rig Vedas. Even to this day the Parsis don't differ much from a present day Hindu. So if a believer of Vedas can be allowed into a temple, I find no reason why a Parsi won't be allowed. Stretching ...

In his article titled “Parsis have civilization; other Indians don’t” published in Mint (Saturday, 5th December) Aakar Patel points out why it’s so wrong when Indians say Tata-Birla-Ambani in the same breath. While the Birlas and Ambanis are single-mindedly focused on the business of making money, the Tatas are giving much back to the society and the nation. While even the ...

... !). Many skilled cricketers are terrified of Sachin, always have been(makes me proud, one we love is their worst nightmare... wow!!!). Starting with the first match ever played on the Indian soil, in 1877(the Parsis' team against the Europeans), till today(the latest win being on 12/6/09) our team has bred excellence, faced down slides, seen glory, and have even been harassed too(remember, ...

... of the Sangh Parivar leaders would restore the image of syncretism and equal respect to all religions that ensured the embrace of all victimns of religious prosection from the countries, from Jews to Parsis and Ahmedias to Bahais, since antiquity. Never in history, any individual was forced to migrate out of India, as his faith was not liked by the locals or their rulers. Paradoxically, the Sangh ...

... . It's been in the back of my mind ever since: I want to get a headscarf and go to Iran. I've watched the films when they are shown here of course, and I love to read about the Parsis, the Zoroastrians who migrated to India; many now live in Bombay (one of the most famous was of course Farrokh Bulsara - aka Freddy Mercury. Another is my secret crush, monklike Tata Enterprises chair Ratan ...