Parsis form a dwindling community of fewer than 1,25,000 people worldwide, most of whom are concentrated around Bombay. (Vinodhini, 1) During the 7th century, they had fled Iran to avoid conversion to Islam. India had offered them a home free from religious persecution. Most of the small community rose to affluence by working as tradespeople. Under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s first term (1971-1977), India remained their safe haven, but they were marginalized as nationalized banks seized their
Anand Mahindra was born on 1 May 1955. He is the chairman and managing director of Mahindra Group. His grandfather JC Mahindra co-founded the company in Mumbai, India. Founded as a steel trading company, the Group today has a presence in multiple sectors from agribusiness to aerospace. It is considered to be one of the most reputed Indian industrial houses with market leadership in many business verticals including utility vehicles, tractors (world's largest tractor company by volume), after market
An American Brat How would you feel if you came to America for the first time? You would probably be frightened and/or excited, right? That is how the main character of An American Brat, Feroza Ginwalla, felt. Feroza is a sixteen year old Pakistani girl who is sent to America by her parents, hoping that a few months with her uncle, a grad student, will soften Feroza's firm thinking in Pakistan beliefs. They get more than they bargained for. Feroza attends college and learns what independence and
the faith, such as being allowed into religious ceremonies and being a part of the Zoroastrian culture, this has not seemed to deter outside of the faith marriages. This time last year, approximately 40 percent of Parsis in India married outside the faith and about 60 percent of Parsis overseas in American and Canada married outside the faith. Seeing as members are still marrying outside the faith significantly, conflict as a source of integration, at least from what I found in the article did not
Bapsi Sidhwa, the distinguished internationally renowned writer, is Pakistan’s most prominent and leading English fiction writer. Born in Karachi in 1939, Sidhwa and her family later moved to Lahore which later became the background of her major novels. Sidhwa’s novels are social and historical documents that cover the contemporary realities of life and various cultures. Her odyssey as an author of fictional writing has been steady. Her novels are all about the life and cultures of her native subcontinent
When one thinks of Bollywood films, William Shakespeare is the last person to come to mind. In fact, for many, Shakespeare wouldn’t come to mind at all. Singing and dancing with elaborate costumes and complex storylines, Bollywood films seem to have nothing in common with the Western portrayal of Shakespeare’s plays. Until recently, the themes of the most beloved plays, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Comedy of Errors, to name a few, have been adapted and recreated in Bollywood films without
were generally imitating the Shakespearean model and their stories were mostly drawn from the Muslim or Indian romantic tales and later, also from mythological and historical episodes. In the Parsi theatre there was a preponderance of music and dance which it absorbed from the folk theatre or natyas. The Parsi stage was divided in deep and shallow scenes—the deep scenes involved the characters of the main plot while the shallow scenes were link scenes which depicted characters of lower-class, which
Religion is one of the reasons why Parsis are a minority in Bombay, India. They believe in Zoroastrianism while most Bombayites are Hindus. The other religions that are minorities are Christianity, and Islam. One of Gustard's friend, Malcom, said to Gustard, "we are the minorities in a nation of Hindus" (Such a Long Journey, pg. 23). Malcom was a Christian and they used to fight about their different religions and who's religion came first. Gustard told Malcom "Our prophet Zarathustra lived more
State of Gujarat which houses many of the sacred religious places. Some of the religious places at Surat are listed below: 1. Agam Mandir 2. Ambika Niketan Temple 3. Ambaji Temple 4. Khwaja Didar Dargah 5. Chantamani Jain Temple 6. ISKCON Temple 7. Parsi Agiari 8. Mughalsarai 9. Nav Said Masjid 10. Jama Masjid 11. Bhimnath mahadev Temple 12. Shree Kal Bhairavnath Mahadev Temple A Bird-eye view of the religious places in Surat is as below: 1. Shree Agam Mandir: Agam Mandir is located in the gopipura
Rohinton Mistry is a writer of Indian Diaspora who possesses a double identity. By birth, he is an Indian and settled down in Canada, despite everything, he expounds his country through his anecdotal works and discusses the agony of immigrants. He throws light on discrimination, brutality, and injuries confronted by the Dalits in rural India. This paper mainly concentrates on how Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance mirrors the truth of India, the political issues of debasement, discrimination
Portfolio Project In today’s fast paced era, health care is a continuous process, in which medical demands as well as needs are progressively getting challenging therefore accessibility to a good health care system is necessary in order to provide major improvements in the quality of care. Additionally, health of an individual is the most vital aspect of human life that enables people to perform all their tasks in life. Without good health, people struggle to maximize each moment in their life.
nations the two share very common attributes. And with respect to the viewer each story is told through the eyes of neutral parties such as Paul and his Hutu heritage and his wife’s Tutsi heritage, and Lenny-baby and her neutral Parsi family. Lenny-Baby is raised in a well off Parsi family in India. She lays perfect groundwork to be the eyes and ears of this film. Her family’s neutral stand point keeps her safe from any direct aggression, being a young child leaves us with
their new possession as "Bom Baia" which in Portuguese means "Good Bay". Sir George Oxenden became the first British Governor of the islands, and was succeeded later by Mr. Gerald Aungier who made Bombay more populous by attracting Gujerati traders, Parsi ship-builders, and Muslim and Hindu manufacturers from the mainland. He fortified defenses by constructing the Bombay Castle (the Fort, since then vanished except for a small portion of the wall) and provided stability by constituting courts of law
years after he had emigrated from India, when Tales From Firozsha Baag (1987) was shortlisted for a Governor's General Award. A collection of linked tales set in a Bombay Baag (or apartment complex). It records the sour-sweet lives of the largely Parsi families who live there. These issues recur in the novels that Mistry subsequently published — Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance and Family Matters (2002) — as did his primary focus on India, its social traumas and the 'bonbeur d' occasion'
Zareen rushes to America to prevent this unsuitable marriage. She brings money to buy off David. She tries to explain to Feroza that by marrying David she would cut herself off from her family and religion. She would never be allowed to enter the Parsi places of worship,
court. He quickly learned that Indians where divided in different groups. “One was that of Musalman merchants, who would call themselves ‘Arabs.’ Another was that of Hindu, and yet another of Parsi, clerks. The Hindu clerks were neither here nor there, unless they cast in their lot with the ‘Arabs.’ The Parsi clerks would call themselves Persians. These three classes had some social relations with one another. But by far the largest class was that composed of Tamil, Telugu and North Indian indentured
Behind the Beauties: Politics Explored and Exploded in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance When politics is a practice of power that rules lives with a cluster of perceptions and practices, Mistry’s A Fine Balance is a novel that acts as a great force fearlessly displaying life’s rich variousness and barren viciousness, proving that power is abused and the strong grind the weak as Frank Norris remarks in The Responsibilities of Novelists. Aware of India’s social and political life, and closely linked
conversion. During this period many immigrated to India, where they became known as the Parsis. Some also moved to China but that community was suppressed in the 11th century. In colonial India, many wells, which often were held to be the home of spirits, were closed for reasons of hygiene. In central south Mumbai, the Bhikha Behram Well continues to serve as a site of worship for Zoroastrians, but the non-Parsis are not admitted. In Iran, wells, springs, and ponds often serve as the natural basis
Mistry supports untouchables. For him, untouchability is not only disease but it is also poisoning the sacred philosophy of Hinduism. He describes the gender discrimination and the oppression faced by the untouchables in A Fine Balance by introducing the four characters –Dina and Mameck who are Parsees and two tailors Ishvar and his nephew Omprakash are humiliated by the upper castes. The lives of the tailors‘forefathers who were in fact ‘ Chamars’ or ‘ Mochis’ reflect the ruthless cruelty of the
Introduction Pedagogical grammar is a rather new concept that has been applied by a number of language instructors to impart new language knowledge to students (Nordquist 2011, p. 1). The teaching methodology has its own structures in the sense that it is divided into two aspects: the first talks about the grammatical composition of language while the second talks about the articulation of language rules (of the new language). In comprehensively analyzing how the teaching methodology works, it is