Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India | A Photographic Journey 1980-2004 by Sooni Taraporevala [in AsianWeek]
27 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian
From the screenwriter of such award-winning films as Mississippi Masala and Salaam Bombay! comes a stunning portrait of a rapidly shrinking community, the Parsis who number just 100,000 today. Followers of Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s...
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