Parsis believe burying or cremating the dead pollutes nature and traditionally relied on birds of prey to devour corpses. That tradition is now under threat, due in part to a vulture shortage.

The Parsi community, which gave India many of its firsts— first cotton mill in the country, the first Indian-owned newspaper, ...

The Parsis, according to tradition, first settled at Hormuz on the Persian Gulf, but having been persecuted, on seeing that they were still persecuted, they decided to move to India. It may have ...

The Parsis of India have reared some of the best and brightest, such as Rohinton Mistry, the Bombay-born novelist short-listed for the Booker Prize for “Family Matters,” a sad, ...

Two of the museum's most compelling exhibits are replicas of a Tower of Silence and a Parsi fire temple. The Tower of Silence, or dakhma, is where Parsis leave their dead to be returned to nature ...

From a small fishing village to a teeming metropolis, Karachi has been home to all and sundry — from the natives to the conquering British and then the streams of immigrants who embarked at its ...

The Parsis have been very successful over the centuries in India in politics, academia and business, but their population in India is aging rapidly and many young people are moving abroad.

The Balance Sheet. In a nation with a 25% literacy rate, the Parsis can boast that more than 90% of the sect’s members can read and write. Despite the widespread hunger and poverty of India, the ...

Some Parsis believe the answer is to allow young boys from priestly families to take up the vocation only as a “calling,” not their sole profession. Vispy Wadia, ...

Parsis are one of the best human beings., you state this in your comment but did not explain it, I happen to ask this question and was told they do not want to have the graveyards as that would ...

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Parsis revel in their reputation as party hosts and cooks. Every Parsi gathering, celebration, religious occasion, and even loss is marked by food. Celebrate Nowruz, ...