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Parsi religious ceremonies
Angeldust, just out of curiosity, are you a Parsi as well?
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Parsi religious ceremonies
Angeldust, just out of curiosity, are you a Parsi as well?
Parsis are great community and they have contributed to India immensely. The one issue I have is how they dispose off the dead bodies. They have the bodies placed in the Tower of Silence and have vultures and various creatures eat the bodies as their religious beliefs does not allow them to dispose off the bodies through burial or cremation.
I read this somewhere that this is an issue in Mumbai but the the members from Mumbai can comment on this.
Parsis are great community and they have contributed to India immensely. The one issue I have is how they dispose off the dead bodies. They have the bodies placed in the Tower of Silence and have vultures and various creatures eat the bodies as their religious beliefs does not allow them to dispose off the bodies through burial or cremation.
I read this somewhere that this is an issue in Mumbai but the the members from Mumbai can comment on this.
What is iroon? Never heard about them.Yes I am. Half parsi, half iroon.
What is iroon? Never heard about them.
The alleged intention of the thread was to focus on Iranians (presumably only Parsis) in India, not Iran. If you start talking about Christians in India, would you suddenly switch to discussing ancient Rome and Byzantine?
The repeated references to Iran "reverting" to Zoroastrianism mirror the Hindutva agenda to "reconvert" everyone -- especially Indian Muslims -- "back" into Hinduism. It's a bit too transparent.
Anyway, carry on. I was commenting on the fact that some people can't pass up any chance to bring Islam into unrelated discussions.
Irani Zoroastrian. As oppose to Parsi Zoroastrian. But we speak gujrati at home, though my grandparents speak dari.
Parsi weddings
wow.. always thought eating in banana leaf is exclusive to South Indian culture. Didn't know it's a part of Parsi culture too..
Yes I am. Half parsi, half iroon.
Kem chho ji aakash. That is only half the story. The point made by our leaders to the King then was that we would mix into the population just like the sugar, and make the milk sweeter as a result.
We were also asked not to convert and not to slaughter cows. No Parsi home cooks beef as a result to this day, though many of us do eat it outside. We also do not convert. But we need to re-look at our marriage laws and there is an intense debate that has been going on for close to two decades now between the youth and the old people.
That and the fact that our girls often are smarter and more educated and earning better than our boys. And the fact that career comes first for both so thay marry late. And when they do, they do not have more than a single kid if at all. So the girls mary outside, and their kids are not allowed to be Parsis. Due to the fact that the marriage laws are loaded heavily in favor of the males when it comes to keeping the bloodlines and staying in the faith, as also the children of such mixed marriages.