Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi.
Unofficial figures estimate that at least 15 percent of the population is Hindu, 5 percent is Buddhist, and 5 percent belong to other religious groups, including Christian, Parsi, Bahá'í, and Sikh.
Her character in the series is that of a very sweet and innocent Parsi housewife.She is married to a Sardarji Roshan Singh Sodhi which means she also shares her name with her husband.
Further, Mercury was of an Indian-Parsi origin and spent majority of his childhood in Panchgani, which is located in the northern part of the mountain range from where the frog was discovered.
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The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her will to the Hindu ruler of Bundelkhand, an Indian princely state.
Director of the cultural committee at the Iranian Association of University of Toronto (IAUT) in 2007, Parsi is also a member of the Rainbow Railroad group based in Toronto, Canada, and the Advisory Committee of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation.
The Zoroastrian residents of Karachi, feeling the need for imparting religious education and knowledge of Gujarati, opened on 23 May 1859, “The Parsi Balakshala,” or children’s school.
British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury was an Indian Parsi and a resident of Dadar Parsi Colony.
He sent his son Elias David Sassoon to Canton, where he was the first Jewish trader (with 24 Parsi rivals).
They won seven games and drew another before they were due to play the Parsi Gymkhana of Bombay (now Mumbai) on 30 January 1890, just after that great cricket stalwart, Lord Harris, had been named as the next Governor of the Bombay Presidency.
From a Parsi entrepreneurial family, Gulubhai Jasdanwalla was a race horse breeder and a collector of Raags and compositions signature of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
In 1875, an eighteen-year old Parsi named Behramshah Nowroji Shroff left Surat (Gujarat, India) for Peshawar (now in Pakistan) in search of employment.
Born in 1910 in Jabalpur in a Parsi family, Cawas pursued a career of professional body building and became the winner of 1930 All-India Bodybuilding Championship.
His paternal grandparents had migrated to Colombo from Surat, North of Bombay, in the year 1885 in order to manage an established business house in the Coconut oil industry at Colombo, belonging to a Bombay Parsi family.
He urged the Zoroastrians of Yazd and Kerman to form anjuman societies, based somewhat on the pattern of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet.
In the present-day, "Pahlavi" is frequently identified with the prestige dialect of south-west Iran, formerly and properly called Pārsi, after Pars (Persia proper).
Kharegat, who had a younger sister, Ratanbai (*15.1.1941 +11.8.2003), was a Parsi and a descendant of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, the first Indian Baronet and a first cousin once removed of Russi Mody, Chairman and Managing Director of Tata Steel.
In September 2012, a U.S. federal judge John D. Bates threw out the libel suit against Daioleslam on the grounds that "NIAC and Parsi had failed to show evidence of actual malice, either that Daioeslam acted with knowledge the allegations he made were false or with reckless disregard about their accuracy."