Word: zoroastrian
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Norway native P. Oktor Skjaervo, the Aga Khan professor of Iranian, recently translated Zoroastrian texts drawn from the nearly 4,000 year-old Iranian culture into Norwegian. These appeared in the Norwegian Book Clubs last January...
...FM’s Fifteen Hottest Freshmen: FM’s Two Hottest Freshmen, Along With 13 Half-Polynesian Transgendered Zoroastrian Communists...
...adapter Reade's favorites, where Saleem visits Tibibi, the oldest whore in the world. Supple is using a cast of 20, mostly of South Asian background. Zubin Varla, who plays Saleem, says many of the actors identify strongly with the story. His own family hailed from Bombay's tiny Zoroastrian community, and he grew up in Britain with a sense of cultural alienation similar to that of his character. "I spent my youth wondering who I was, just as Saleem does," Varla says. "Many people feel that." Rushdie admits to pride at seeing how much his book means...
Summers’ speech was preceded by opening remarks from Swami Tyagananda, president of the United Ministry at Harvard, Bernard Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel, Taha B. H. Abdul-Basser of the Harvard Islamic Society and Cyrus R. Mehta of the Harvard Zoroastrian Association...
...downtrodden?brings benefits, like privileged access to schools and a quota of government jobs. (Government officials at their most legalistic say Christians don't have castes.) The Parsis of Bombay, descendants of refugees from Iran and one of India's most influential business communities, were also incensed that their Zoroastrian religion was not listed on the census form. And in insurgency-plagued Kashmir to the northwest and Assam to the northeast the census provoked a new battle over language and religion. Kashmir didn't want its status as a Muslim majority state undermined. In Assam the native Assamese wanted...