It is the New Year of the Zoroastrians today(one of them anyway). We celebrate this, the Persian New Year and vernal equinox because of our ancient connection with Iran, the fact that this is supposed to be King Jamshed’s birthday and because we like any excuse to celebrate. We also celebrate another New Year in August (I told you we like to celebrate) to mark the date of our arrival in India as refugees over a thousand years ago too. This is the community about whom Mahatma Gandhi once said, In numbers Parsis are beneath contempt, but in contribution, beyond compare. So let us all celebrate and laugh a little with this tiny tribe of opinionated and idiosyncratic people to say Jamshedi Navroze Mubarak!
These are the central tenets of the ancient religion preached by Prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). We believe that if we practice Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds this takes care of most things.
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