Parsis

JR is a 26-year-old Persian male who lives in Fresno. This interview took place on 03/17/17 at 1330. The story of his life based on the interview showed that this person is in recovery from a very heavy addiction to drugs. When I asked the person about his life story he gave me the following information. I was three years old when my mother divorced my father because of his addiction to drugs. I grew up mostly in my grandparent’s house in Iran with my mother, until my mom decided to remarry her second husband. After their marriage, we came to the United States and I was only 5 years old. Even though I don’t remember completely but, I noticed my mom and my step dad have been fighting over me many times with each other. I remember my mother often…

concealed feelings and emotions of mankind have spilled the beans of the tenets, the ethos and the spirit of their religion. Parsi writers, especially, with their proud feeling for their tiny community have very enthusiastically brought into light the sacraments and the ethos of the religion in their works. Writers as Keki.N.Daruwala, Rohinton mistry, Wapsi Sidhwa, Nergis Dalal, have corroborated the real spirit of Parsis. Not only the rituals, traditions, customs of Parsi but also the aura, the…

phenomenon, nation and nationhood which are highly ambivalent and ambiguous in the context of globalization and imagination. The nationalism, transnational’s and transmigration these ideas are inevitably linked to geopolitical entities like nation states and nationhood. The formations of nation and subsequent reformations have undermined the nations of stability and fixity. There was a turning point in the lives of Parsi at the time of colonization of India by British Raj. Many of them…

In the world of biology macromolecules are the basis of all life. The four main biological macromolecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Carbohydrates contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, as well as provide a means for energy and cell support in plants. .( Parsi et al, 2016) They can be further categorized by the subtitles monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. Since monosaccharides are monomers and thus simple sugars, as monomers are added to the chain…

he invited him in, asking if he would care to join him for dinner, but he replied that he had already eaten, however, he would gladly share a pint while Mangus ate and they talked. He poured Balthazar a pint and both sat while Mangus continued eating, as Balthazar explained that Parsis had taken notice of the recent activity surrounding the manor and the town of Banniff and anticipated that they would…

The Irani café was gifted to Mumbai by a small group of Iranians who has called the city home since the 19th century. The story goes that the canny immigrants opened up cafés in corner locations that Hindus felt were inauspicious; the cafés thrived, their food calibrated to tempt not just the local Parsis*, Christians, Hindus and Muslims, but sometimes also the British that were stationed in the area. Some cafés had a rather sparse menu -- the century-old Sassanian started out serving only…

The novel is pre-occupied with the quest for identity, that is, their cultural up rootedness, angust, alienation and loneliness, are the various facets of the their crisis of identity. Mistry indulges in the psychological quest of his protagonists. He straddles two cultures- Indian and Parsis. He stays in Canada but his imagination is not free from the angust and phobia of the existence and the future of his minority community in the post colonial India. Mistry achieves the balance…

wonderful novel discussing the position of minority in the Indian society. As far as India is concern, the major religion here is Hinduism and other religions are minor, be it Parsi or Muslim. The life for these people is ‘grave’ and that is what Mistry tries to showcase in the novel. The novel, set against the backdrop of 1971 Indo-Pak war, involves the tragedy of the main character Gustad, ruining all his hopes by the situations out of his control. Mrs. Priyambda Singh notes: Such a long…

The bear which was unable to detect the group because of the recent rain became startled and attacked Parsi and his dogs. Pete was able to defend his owner while Parsi saved the four other dogs; however, the English Setter dog was badly injured and had to be put down later on due to his injuries. Prior to his adoption by Parsi and his wife, Pete was a former hunting dog in Ohio and was living his life as a family dog after retiring from service. He was described by his owners as a…

But, ever since women decided to take the world on their own term hassles grew in manifolds. Interjecting on the strands of the “Parsi Law of Inheritance”, one exactly reads where a woman stands. Driving into a profound study of the Parsi Law, it advertises; that a non- Parsi woman who is either a wife of a widow of a Parsi man cannot inherit. What kind of probity does the ‘Parsi Law of Inheritance’ speak? Much to say, Feminists have been never against ‘Man’, they are just anti to the idea…