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.

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

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 ...

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, ...

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.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Parsis number just in thousands. India's Registrar General J K Banthia says the community is heading towards extinction in India, and, in effect, the world because Parsis are only found in India.

Some 200 Parsis of all ages in festive clothes gather at Delhi Anjuman, a Parsi community centre, to celebrate Navroz, the New Year. It is the first day of the Persian year and Parsis across 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, ...

The Parsis begin to introduce deliberate religious reforms; The Zoroastrian response to the increasing urbanisation and cultural diversity of the 20th century was one of flexibility and integrity ...

Parsis, who are concentrated in Mumbai and count many of the country’s best-known billionaires among their ranks, now number fewer than 70,000 in a country of 1.2 billion, ...