IN the southwestern part of Persia is the lovely valley of Schiraz, in the province of Farsistan, which is the ancient Persis. Through the long spring and summer the plains are covered with flowers, ...

Of all the religious texts, the Avesta is perhaps the least familiar. This is unsurprising, since the Avesta was written in a now-dead language, before being lost for almost one thousand years.

"In every religion, there're people, priests and laity, who bring regressiveness to that particular religion. Zoroastrian population is small as compared with other religions and the percentage of ...

The FD Alpaiwalla Museum in Mumbai reopened after restoration, showcasing Parsi-Zoroastrian history and 19th century Mumbai life. It features updated exhibits, including rare artefacts, manuscripts, ...

Over five centuries after the last recorded priestly exchange, Iranian Zoroastrian high priest Mobed Mehraban Pouladi visits India to strengthen ties with the Parsi community. He aims to foster unity ...

An evening walk through the town gives one an opportunity to stop and greet the mobeds (ordained priests) who have made Udwada their home for many generations. In their flowing white muslin jamas ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

The Rig Veda tells us how the Bharata tribe built India's first known empire and created a model of assimilation rather than imposition. Thus, they came to lend their name to a whole civilisation This ...

“We are so accustomed to consider language a mark of race that it is difficult to avoid using linguistic epithets in an ethnological sense, and a good deal of confused thinking sometimes results from ...

This repo contains all my work for this specialization. All the code base, quiz questions, screenshot, and images, are taken from, unless specified, Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera. As a CS ...