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Its a weird article. It casts the Indian Parsis as some kind of weird little minority with little power. it couldnt be farther from the truth. The Indian Parsi
by sandGorgon 5y ago
Its a weird article. It casts the Indian Parsis as some kind of weird little minority with little power.
it couldnt be farther from the truth. The Indian Parsi have had an outsized impact across the world.
The Tata Sons Group - one of the world's largest business empires (which incidentally owns Jaguar Land Rover) was created by the Tata Parsi family. Ratan Tata is basically Dale Carnegie and Rockefeller rolled into one.
The second largest Godrej group in India is Parsi.
Home Bhabha is the father of India's nuclear program. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw was India's only Field Marshal and probably the most legendary military warrior ever.
The controversial political family of India - the Gandhis are a half Parsi family.
The world's largest COVID vaccine manufacturer and the backbone of India's COVID effort (as well as the global COVAX program) is the Poonawaala family which runs Serum Institute of India.
Zubin Mehta - the world's most famous orchestra conductor is an Indian Parsi.
Oh and I nearly forgot.... Freddie Mercury ...yes that Freddie Mercury is a Parsi. His real name is Farrokh Bulsara.
This is really amazing when you consider that there are barely a few hundred thousand of them in a country of 1.3 billion people.