January 22, 2008 – 7:12 pm
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www.thedailystar.net By : Farseem M. Mohammedy
... In relation to Avesta, the Zoroastrian holy book of ancient Iran written in a language that was very close to that of Vedic Sanskrit, Bryan details the cultural proximity that must have been a reality in prehistory before the Indo-Iranians separated from the Indo-Aryans. Words like daeva, ahura, hapta-hendu, harahvaiti, homa, etc., have their counterparts in Sanskrit (read \'s\' in place of \'h\'). ...
The Vedic civilisation is still an enigma. Mystery in the dating of the civilisation, whether it is actually a material civilisation, where Read More »
September 1, 2007 – 5:40 pm
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www.nytimes.com By : DOUGLAS MARTIN
... His “Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith” (1993) plowed deeper into the roots of belief in an apocalyptic end of time, finding that the Iranian prophet Zoroaster laid the groundwork for the phenomenon. ...
Norman Cohn, a historian who influenced a generation of historians and social scientists with his insight that totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, chiefly Communism and Nazism, were Read More »
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desicritics.org By : Kim
... The entire story is told through the eyes of Lenny Sethi (Sethna in the movie) from the time she is 7 to early teenage. Lenny is a Parsi girl. Her religion and age does play a pivotal part in the story telling because most of the events around her do not affect her or her immediate family directly, although it affects the lives of everyone else around her. ...
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In 2000, one of the few films that moved me to tears was Deepa Mehta’s “1947 : Earth” Coming from the South of the Vindhya’s, Read More »
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www.presstv.ir
... Volume 1 is dedicated to the earliest Zoroastrian writers and thinkers from the early Islamic period ...
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The third volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia by two Iranian scholars is to be published in Britain in February 2008.
Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mahdi Amin-Razavi, the anthology will be released by I. B. Tauris Publications, London.
Nasr and Amin-Razavi have included theosophy in the Middle Ages.
This is the third of a projected five-volume anthology encompassing the full span of Persian philosophy from Zoroastrianism up to the present day.
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www.news.com.au By : Joe Hildebrand
AT last the question on everybody’s lips has been answered: The hardest working believers in Australia are are Zoroastrians.
With just two religious holidays a year, the followers of the prophet Zoroaster are four times as diligent as Muslims, five times more than Hindus, and put the Jews and Orthodox Christians to shame.
While workplace consultants Enterprise Initiatives are advising employers how to rip-off their workers on public holidays, the NSW Government is giving away days off left right and centre.
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