Pakistan's Parsi community dwindles

Pakistan's Parsi community dwindles

From a gated community for her Zoroastrian faith in Karachi, 22-year-old Elisha Amra has waved goodbye to many friends migrating abroad as the ancient Parsi community dwindles. Soon the film student hopes to join them — becoming one more loss to Pakistan's ageing Zoroastrian Parsi people, a community who trace their roots back to Persian refugees from Iran more than a millennium ago. "My plan is to go abroad," Amra said, adding that she wants to…

The Parsi Cemetry Darjeeling - In the quiet corners of my childhood memories - The Darjeeling Chronicle

The Parsi Cemetry Darjeeling by Nilima Tamang highlights an important facade of Darjeeling’s history and society. The secret garden of my childhood still exists, though now hidden beneath wild weeds, silence and ravaged by landslide. The Parsi Cemetery at Singtom Fatak now, is nothing more than a forgotten patch of land but for many who have lived nearby for generations, this place was never just a cemetery. It was a peaceful space filled with f…