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HOME CARE.(Family Matters)
Whereas Salman Rushdie's celebrated "Midnight's Children" gave us Bombay with a headlong, fantastic, word-twirling magic realism, Rohinton Mistry, a Bombay-born Canadian, presents the same diverse, congested metropolis with a realism that, if too wry to be called sober, might be termed Tolstoyan. In a polished but economical and unobtrusive prose, he writes of household dramas, of plausibly confined, earthbound lives seeking to generate on their own a spark of relieving magic. Mistry harks back to the nineteenth-century novelists, for whom every detail, every urban alley, every character however lowly added a vital piece to the full social picture, and for whom every ...
- Parsi
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Merchant, W. January 1, 1996 700+ words
Parsi ETHNONYMS: Parsee...Identification. The Parsis are an immigrant...marrying outside the Parsi community. Linguistic...Virtually all Parsis today speak a Gujarati...estates endowed by Parsi charitable funds...caste Hindus, Parsis have not been bound...
- Indian filmmaker unveils her own minuscule Parsi Minority.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt) November 5, 2009 700+ words
...chose to treat the Parsi ultra-conservatives...comedy. India's Parsis, mainly living in...numbers dwindle, some Parsis still insist on exclusivity...who take a non-Parsi spouse. These...up surrounded by Parsis in Bombay -- as...hometown -- where Parsi families from the...
- India's Parsis celebrate 'Navroz'.
- News wire article from: Asian News International August 19, 2009 700+ words
...Members of the miniscule Parsi community flocked at...prophet Zarathushtra. The Parsi New Year is marked by...gaiety. On this day, Parsis decorate their homes...that," said Shenaz, a Parsi woman. The day before...is 'Pateti' when Parsis dwell on the wrongs or...
- The Indian diaspora.(Parsis)
- Magazine article from: Calliope Choksy, Jamsheed K. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...By the 13th century, Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrians...and guide the Indian Parsis in religious matters...accepted. Contact between Parsis and Europeans increased...wealth and size of the Parsi community. When the...India Company in 1661, Parsis added to their community...
- Parsi community in Mumbai gear up for a Friendship Day drive
- News wire article from: The Hindustan Times August 3, 2008 700+ words
...car rally on Sunday. Parsi Resource Group, founded...youngsters especially the Parsis getting together and...campaign for 'The Bombay Parsi Panchayat' elections...made cars. "It's (Parsi community) a small community...friendship among all the Parsis people. So we will make...
- Drop in vulture population causing concern to Parsis.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 31, 2005 700+ words
...a matter of grave concern for the Parsis because, in the absence of the scavenger...Arshad Deboo, an 83-year-old Parsi who is an active member of Parsi Panchayat in this western Indian city. The Parsis, who are the descendants of the ancient...
- Stamps issued on Parsi high school's 150 years.
- Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan) May 22, 2009 700+ words
...school in 1859. It was a small Parsi Balakshala housed in the residence...fund to feed and cloth the poor Parsi students and to date the Bhojan...the very first time to non-Parsis. Hence as of today, BVS Parsi High School thus holds the distinction...
- Competition and Collaboration: Parsi Merchants and the English East India...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Amer, Glen J. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...Rustum Manock, and one community, the Parsi, over this same period. In doing so...White also wrestles with the role of the Parsi in the rise of industrial capitalism in...the English. White maintains that the Parsi community above all possessed inherent...
