India's Parsi population on verge of extinction
Wednesday September 17, 2003
BOMBAY: Khorshed Driver is 72, single and lives with her 96-year-old mother in Bombay.
That's not at all unusual for India's tiny and dwindling Parsi community, or Zoroastrians, who fled religious persecution in Persia and landed on Indian shores more than 1000 years ago.
"We're an ageing and dwindling population," Shernaz Cama, head of a UNESCO research project on the Parsis, said
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That's not at all unusual for India's tiny and dwindling Parsi community, or Zoroastrians, who fled religious persecution in Persia and landed on Indian shores more than 1000 years ago.
"We're an ageing and dwindling population," Shernaz Cama, head of a UNESCO research project on the Parsis, said
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Zoroastrianism
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iam very sad of about the dwindling population of india. Iam ahindu but i love the parsi community. they were the main reason for indias growth please do something about this. If parsi”s are gone india is gone.