Parsee

• “The Parsee is the only sect holding religious tenets strange enough to stamp them as "peculiar people" who amount to much in the material affairs of life.”

  East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan

• “It remained for Anquetil Duperron, a young Frenchman, a Persian scholar, to translate the Zend Avesta, which contains the teachings of Zoroaster, and may be called the Parsee bible.”

  Modern India

• “Parsee," said he to the guide, "you have been serviceable and devoted.”

  Around the World in Eighty Days

• “Deepa Mehta's films also peer into pre-modern women's enclaves with an eye on the ways and means that religious constraints--in this case Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Parsee restraints--have historically reinforced women's strength and resilience despite their enforced abjection--characteristics that men rarely emphasize in their depictions and accounts of women's homosocieties.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide

• “The Christian, Hindu, Sikh and Parsee communities have been second-class citizens since the death of Jinnah; and the situation is getting worse: acts of violence committed with impunity, rape and forced conversions of girls, false blasphemy accusations followed by lynchings, discrimination by the police and justice system, imposition of jizya (tax on non-muslims) by islamist organisations.”

  Wonk Room » Moving Beyond A Transactional U.S.-Pakistan Partnership

• “My father learned this unique Parsee also spelled Parsi Indian dish while serving in the British Royal Navy as the dentist on the aircraft carrier HMS Centaur.”

  USA Today: Father's Day contest brims with memories, recipes

• “Dinshah, of Parsee descent, infused veganism with the Jain and Buddhist doctrine of ahimsa - (non violence to all living creatures).”

  Origins of Modern Veganism

• “Having grown up as a Parsee in Karachi where women can walk unrebuked with a duppatta over their heads, she thought for the very first time, "Bloody hell -- this country is being Talibanized ”

  Betwa Sharma: Asking Pakistanis, When?

• “I think the only thing that keeps me sane and able to teach with some integrity is the fact we have Iraqi neighbours in front of us and a Hindu/Parsee couple in the flat downstairs.”

  Equipping the lay missions force

• “And at the close, representatives of India's other religions -- Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsee -- stepped forward to offer blessings from their own traditions.”

  Newsweek: Requiem For A Saint

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