Still. Its not been an easy journey. Without the continued threat of annihilation ... or assimilation.
This is a fascinating piece.
If you want to see how Parsis have survived and thrived in India, among current examples
See Ratan Tata (or any Parsi industrialist)
See Cyrus Broacha (or any social media influencer, commentator or entertainer)
See CJI Fali Nariman or any of the other 4 Parsi CJI's (or any public servant in high office)
See Doc (or any white collar professional who is outnumbered a million to one in his field of expertise)
All of these will have a public life and a very very private life.
@Joe Shearer I'd appreciate your patient reading and thoughts on the piece too. When you have the time.
@indushek @Rivino @Guru Dutt @Jbgt90tankguy @Developereo
Cheers, Doc
@vsdoc Thanks for the interesting read Doc
This para struck me as very very important, which is given as a part of conclusion.
Whether a minority is exemplary or threatening has little to do with their actions,
rather it is determined by the political requirements of the present and
how the demand to be loyal and acculturate has previously been answered. These are rhetorical questions and demands.
A hierarchy of minorities is established by remembering a story of loyalty and acculturation that denies each community’s historical specificity.
It is a denial of how each person and community came to find themselves in the situation they are today. It is the use of a politically charged remembered story in the guise of a historical understanding.
Look at the first three sentences I colored
This writer is contradicting himself so much !!!!
On one hand he says that them being exemplary or threatening, has nothing to do with their actions. That its political expediency of the present, but then in the same sentence he says how they have answered loyalty and acculturation in past?
Are bhai kehna kya chahte ho? Does he mean to say that, the past is no guarantee of future path? Or the past no longer matters, because of what the writer feels?
Fourth colored sentence - Self contradicting again considering what all has been written above, the Hindutva lot is deciding exactly based on historic specificity isn't it for both groups.
Fifth colored - Same as above.
Started good, but ended with preconceived conclusions I guess. Nothing surprising, post 2014 there have been a surge of such articles.
It was also interesting to see mention of Japanese Americans, in this article. I will say its an insult, considering what happened to them during World War. Maybe some riots which you seem to have mentioned, or some struggles in the past.. other than that, have the Parsis ever faced a fate like them here Doc?
Overall picture seems rosy for Parsis (Except the line about Modi asking Parsis to leave for Iran, and them disagreeing - going by whatever written here is absolute truth) if we by this article Doc? Or is there is something am missing.
Have never had any kind of personal interaction with Parsis till date, being from the South. Whatever heard I have only heard good.
