Parsees
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Parsees see Parsis .
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&type=1 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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As vultures die off, Parsee rite in peril.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 1/1/2007; 867 words;
... Dhun Baria followed the religious practices of most Parsees, leaving the body in the Towers of Silence to be ... from inside the towers--off-limits to all but a few Parsees--started arriving at the apartment where Baria had ... out thousands of copies of the pictures to other Parsees and then to the media ... .
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&type=2 "The Economist (US)")
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Slow breeders; India's Parsees.(India's dwindling Parsees)(Brief article)
The Economist (US); 4/19/2008; 309 words;
... biggest business clans--Tata and Godrej--are Parsees, descendants of Zoroastrians, who fled ... 2001 census India had fewer than 70,000 Parsees, a 40% drop since 1941. Since then, the ... accelerated. A survey suggests that only 99 Parsees were born in the year to August 2007 ...
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Don't pass The Parsee
Evening Standard - London; 2/6/2001; FAY MASCHLER; 639 words;
... Cafe Spice Namaste has recently opened. Parsees, or Zoroastrians as their religion defines ... prince was worried that the arrival of the Parsees would disturb his small community, the ... its headquarters to Bombay in 1687, the Parsees followed, becoming established there as ...
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&type=1 "The Independent Sunday (London, England)")
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Vanishing vultures create burial crisis for Bombay's Parsees.(Foreign News)
The Independent Sunday (London, England); 5/6/2001; Popham, Peter; 597 words;
... all the cities of the subcontinent where Parsees (the word means simply Persians ) live ... the biggest of these communities, the Parsees of Bombay, into crisis. With the vultures ... to people living in the area. Bombay's Parsees number only 50,000 but include many prominent ...
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Vanishing vultures create burial crisis for Bombay's Parsees
The Independent - London; 5/6/2001; PETER POPHAM IN DELHI; 600 words;
... all the cities of the subcontinent where Parsees (the word means simply "Persians") live ... the biggest of these communities, the Parsees of Bombay, into crisis. With the vultures ... to people living in the area." Bombay's Parsees number only 50,000 but include many prominent ...
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SAY HELLO TO TATA ; Like his devout Zoroastrian ancestors, Ratan Tata avoids conspicuous consumption. Yet he has guided his company through India's economic boom to revenues of more than [pound]10bn a year and his takeover of Corus will make it the fifth largest steel manufacturer in the world. Justin Huggler reports ++ From Parsee priests to profits
The Independent - London; 2/1/2007; Justin Huggler; 1678 words;
... into a familyof Parsee priests in Gujarat in 1839. The Parsees are one of Indias most distinct communities. Descended ... years. British Corus workers, nervous at yesterday's news their employer had been taken over by an Indian company ... Tata, who has never married, has no direct heir. The Parsees are ...
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At National Geographic Channel, Washington: David Friedlander, research director.(Banafshesh Parsee appointed as senior manager)(Term Leftwich appointed as manager)(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable; 8/8/2005; 68 words;
At National Geographic Channel, Washington: DAVID FRIEDLANDER, research director, digital and emerging networks, Discovery Communications Inc., Silver Spring, Md., named director, research; BANAFSHEH PARSEE, manager, business and legal affairs, advanced to senior manager, rights and distribution;
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&type=4 "Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)")
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Profile: Dawn on Parsee Gulli
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR); 6/13/2004; LIANE HANSEN; 1064 words;
... with Julian earlier this year while Julian gathered sound for his series on the Ganges. (Credits) HANSEN: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Liane Hansen. Content and Programming copyright 2004 National Public Radio, Inc. All rights reserved.
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IRAN - The ParsEE Projects.
APS Review Downstream Trends; 4/9/2001; 723 words;
The following are the projects being sited the Pars Special Economic/Energy Zone (ParsEE), which was Established in Sept. 1998: Olefins-9 is proposed to be a JV of NPC's Pars Petrochemical Co. and BP. In Sept. 2000 Technip and the local Nargan got the BBC, worth over euro 200m ($170m) to built its
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And a partridge in a Parsee
Evening Standard - London; 9/19/2000; 618 words;
ONE of the problems with Indian food is that India is such a very big place. While we're bleating about devolution and home rule for the English, or Welsh or whatever, the banner "India" binds together a host of different countries, and different cuisines, plus a caste system and an array of
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Rock star's Parsee roots
New Straits Times; 10/2/2007; Rina De Silva; Jaspal Singh; Himanshu Bhatt; 150 words;
Rina De Silva; Jaspal Singh; Himanshu Bhatt New Straits Times 10-02-2007 Rock star's Parsee roots Byline: Rina De Silva; Jaspal Singh; Himanshu Bhatt Edition: Main/Lifestyle Section: Main Section PERHAPS one of the most famous Parsee in the world was Farrokh Bulsara, better known to fans as Freddy
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Profile Ratan Tata He rode the tiger economy and now he drives Jaguar Yet this solitary and abstemious man who has now acquired two of Britain's most prestigious motoring marques could hardly be called an arriviste: his Parsee family have been among India's leading entrepreneurs for more than a century and a half, says William Langley
The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/30/2008; William Langley; 1264 words;
... years ago. In the Gujarat region where they mostly settled, the Parsees have clung tightly to their distinctive culture and an austere ... owned by charitable trusts. Yet he is a man in a hurry. The Parsees of India, the community that sent him forth, is running out ...
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&type=1 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Parsee carries the Irish flag in Venice.(News)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 1/22/2001; 282 words;
THE Venice Biennale is the big one on the international arts calendar, putting the Turner Prize shenanigans in the shade. This year, unbeknown to most in the city of her birth, the island of Ireland will be represented in the canal-side Italian city by Belfast-born Siobhan Hapaska. Siobhan's family
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Now part of nation
New Straits Times; 10/2/2007; Rina De Silva; Jaspal Singh; Himanshu Bhatt; 895 words;
... here since the early 20th century but the Parsees are just a speck in the sea of 26 million ... find the well-heeled and highly- educated Parsees are nonetheless drawn together by their ... as he did not know where to find other Parsees in the country. Like many Parsees, he ...
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&type=1 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Wednesday Book: He gave us monotheism - and Freddie Mercury; In Search of Zarathustra: the first prophet and the ideas that changed the world by Paul Kriwaczek (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20).(Comment)
The Independent (London, England); 3/27/2002; Stanford, Peter; 634 words;
THE PARSEES are often likened to the Jews. From the Indian state of Gujarat, this small ... modern roll of honour are the conductor Zubin Mehta and Freddie Mercury. Parsees (meaning Persians) are the last remnant of Zoroastrianism, a religion that ...
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