Well, an inaugural post. Let’s see how often I actually update this thing. Blogs are necessarily exercises in ego-massage, and the blogging world seems to be dominated by those who enjoy pontificating instead of doing (myself included?). So, I’ll resist the temptation to go off on political rants (except when something’s really outrageous.. and, well, there’s enough of that nowadays) and mostly stick to amusing, or interesting stories and pictures from my sojourn out here in the ‘real world’.
Parsis
I was rather delighted to see an article on the challenges faced by the ever-shrinking Zoroastrian community in North America and elsewhere. This is a subject somewhat near and dear to me for a few reasons. Coming as I do from Bombay (and I use the old name of the city deliberately here) both my parents and I grew up knowing many Parsis (as Zoroastrians are known in India). Indeed the world’s largest Zoroastrian community (that in Bombay) played a profoundly important role in the development of Bombay’s (and more generally, British and Independent India’s) institutions and civil society. I also spent a lot of time researching Parsi history and culture, and the ‘challenges of modernity’, for a final paper for my freshman seminar, further increasing my interest and background on the subject. (more…)
