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...Parsi trader from Bombay, group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata knew how to turn a profit. But J.N. also had a patrician vision of spreading wealth and lifting a nation. In a 1902 letter to his son about building a workers' city around his Tata Steel works, he deplored the squalor of industrial England and anticipated what would become a standard for urban planning: "Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took...
...center of Mistry's fine new novel Family Matters (Faber and Faber; 487 pages) is Nariman Vakeel, a 79-year-old Parsi widower besieged equally by Parkinson's disease and his middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy and Jal. Nariman is also haunted by memories of the real love of his life, a Catholic Goan whom he did not marry in deference to the "marriage arrangers, the wilful manufacturers of misery," a failure of courage that resulted in scandal and tragedy. His joyless family resides in a spacious apartment in Bombay's Chateau Felicity...
...full support to all those feeling threatened. At no point should we ever try to escape retaliation by distancing ourselves from fellow South Asians. Although there are many religions in South Asia, we are one community and will proudly stand beside our Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jewish and Parsi brothers and sisters in this time of concern...
Bombay's tiny but influential and prosperous community of Zoroastrians, known around the world as Parsi, is facing a thorny religious problem. The traditional Parsi death rite--the placing of a corpse in a dakhma, a small open-air amphitheater, where it is devoured by birds of prey in about two hours--is threatened...
India's common white-backed vulture is on the verge of extinction, hit by an unidentified virus sweeping South Asia. To protect their way of death, Parsi leaders plan to build a 50-ft.-high aviary around their jungle-shrouded "Towers of Silence" in one of the toniest areas of central Bombay to breed vultures and to cope with the three human corpses placed there on an average...