February 28, 2008 – 3:00 pm
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www.washingtonpost.com By : Anne Midgette
... In fact, however, Nasseri is still emerging, rather than emerged. He has yet to come under the wing of a major concert agent or presenter and thus has become adept at finding his own ways to get onstage, through sponsors or an organization like the one that presented him on Saturday, the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington. ...
In a classical career, the line between “making it” and “struggling” can be virtually invisible to an outside observer. Soheil Nasseri, 29, is a classical pianist who has given a number of ambitious solo recitals in New York, to sometimes favorable reviews, and he played at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night with a program he will be taking on the road to Berlin and his London debut. Nasseri attended Richard Montgomery High School until he dropped out at 16 to pursue his piano studies, and the story line he would have liked to promote about the weekend’s concert is “Local Boy Makes Good.” Read More »
February 21, 2008 – 12:05 pm
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www.reuters.com By : Fredrik Dahl
Iran’s Zoroastrian community has shrunk by half to 45,000 people since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution, as members of the ancient faith search for jobs and a better future in the West, their MP said on Wednesday.
“I’m personally worried and I would want the community to return,” said Koroush Niknam, who represents the pre-Islamic religion in Iran’s 290-seat legislature and has registered to stand for re-election in a March 14 parliamentary poll.
“Iran is our birth place … our prophet was born in this country,” he told Reuters referring to the faith’s founder Zoroaster who is believed to have lived in the 6th century B.C. Read More »
February 19, 2008 – 6:58 pm
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www.organiser.org By : Manju Gupta
This collection of 12 profiles of eminent Parsis of India covers the era from the 19th century to the contemporary times to cover the freedom fighter, industrialist, lawyer, scientist, Field Marshal and even a conductor of western classical music.
The Parsis came to western India from Iran more than 1,000 years ago to escape religious persecution at the hands of Arabs. Read More »
February 11, 2008 – 1:11 pm
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www.presstv.ir
... Iranian Christian and Zoroastrian leaders gathered in Isfahan for a ceremony of monotheistic faiths to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, IRNA reported on Monday. ...
Several leading members of Iran’s religious minorities have described the country’s Islamic Revolution as a mutual return to faith.
Iranian Christian and Zoroastrian leaders gathered in Isfahan for a ceremony of monotheistic faiths to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, IRNA reported on Monday. Read More »
February 11, 2008 – 1:10 pm
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www.progressivehistorians.com By : Unitary Moonbat
... Zoroastrianism was made the state religion, the Magi were given special privilege, and more than a few marble friezes show Ahuramazda, the supreme deity as spaken of by Zarathustra, conferring the authority to rule upon Ardashir. ...
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Would-be imperialists beware: You gotta be careful when you go to pick a fight with a country possessed of a 5000-year history, for such a nation will inevitably have in its historical record an example of every kind of victory and every kind of loss, and every kind of human triumph and failing in between. In these countries, ideas like a Declaration of Human Rights aren’t imports; they’re the original products of ancestors and fellow countrymen. Been through a few golden ages, followed by periods of decline and ruin? Check. Dealt with foreign aggressors and internal revolt? Check. Been led by people that history remembers as “the Great,” as well as by guys so incompetent that they make George W. Bush look adequate? Check. Read More »
February 10, 2008 – 1:57 pm
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www.culturalindia.net
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Though the total number of Zoroastrians in Indian population is very less yet they continue to be one of the important religious communities of India. According to the 2001 census, there were around 70,000 members of the Zoroastrian faith in India. Most of the Parsis (Zoroastrians) live in Maharashtra (mainly in Mumbai) and the rest in Gujarat. Zoroastrians or Parsis are mainly the descendants of the tenth-century immigrants from Persia. Though the number of Zoroastrians in India is alarmingly low yet they Read More »
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