Word: parsis
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...sons-Rajiv, 30, an Indian Airlines commander who is married to an Italian and has two children, and Sanjay, 28, also married and an industrialist who has designed and produced an Indian compact car named "Maruti" (Tempest). Both Rajiv and Sanjay are products of Indira's marriage to Parsi Lawyer Feroze Gandni>, who died...
...Parsi and a Zoroastrian, I read with interest your story about "The Towers of Silence" [April...
...acknowledged fact that Parsis are known for their hospitality and charity. "Parsi. thy name is Charity" is an oft heard truth, and it is this charitable nature that has given birth to our custom of exposing the dead bodies to vultures. A pure Parsi believes in charity and donation even after his soul leaves his body. "Let the bird feed on my flesh and my bones return to Mother Earth." That principle underlies our practice of confining our dead to the dokhmas...
First Cousins. Other traditions may have to change if the Parsi community is to survive. Indian Parsis number only about 100,000 worldwide; 65,000 of them are concentrated in Bombay. They are an uncommonly talented community...
India's Parsi community has been further diminished by emigration to other countries, but that could possibly be the religion's salvation. In New York last week, when Parsis from the Eastern seaboard gathered to mark the spring equinox with a New Year's festival, many of the couples present were mixed marriages in which the Parsi father raises his children in the old religion. The Parsis of the New World (as well as a few in India) have also hit on a resolution of the burial problem-apparently without breaking the tenets of their faith...