Parsis
PARSIS (Pārsis, also rendered as Parsees), "Persians," or Zoroastrians, from Iran who settled in the Indian subcontinent during the tenth century CE, and their descendents....
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Parsi
The Parsis, numbering no more than eighty thousand, are a cultural and religious community centered in Mumbai (Bombay) but also living in some towns and villages of Gujarat State. Originally fro...
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BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the ...
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Some might see the towering billboards that rise out of a centuries-old Mumbai funeral ground as a message from beyond the grave.But the signs _ which exhort motorists to "Rev up your night life" b...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's
decision Thursday to slap more sanctions on Tehran is aimed
at hiking diplomatic pressure over its nuclear program but
experts say it will be seen ...
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Alarmed at the rapid decline in the vulture population, India's
government is setting up four breeding centers across the country to
save the once-common birds from extinction, the Press Trus...
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A Christian was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammed, and a human rights activist Friday urged Pakistan's president to spare his life.Younis Masih, 29, was arrested i...
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A nursing school was shut down and its Christian principal and four students suspended after Muslim pupils accused unknown people of desecrating verses from the Quran, officials said Saturday.The a...
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A nursing school was shut down and its Christian principal and four Christian students suspended after Muslim pupils accused unknown people of desecrating verses from the Quran, officials said Satu...
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A nursing school was shut down and its Christian principal and four Christian students suspended after Muslim pupils accused unknown people of desecrating verses from the Quran, officials said Satu...
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Singapore (dpa) - New space-saving concrete crypts will be used
for Muslim burials in Singapore instead of the usual holes in the
ground, Islamic organizations said Friday. ...
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What a fizzle. Niall Ferguson was overawed by the SRO New York audience and his Lazard Freres intoducer, an affable machine in a too-long red tie, and did not venture one bold thought on the matter...
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