Names like Parsi, Zoroaster and Zoroastrian have been given to a river, a ship and a gold mine
Farrokh Jijina
Their unique names connect a remote, sparsely populated border area in India, a Swedish built and owned oil vessel and a gold mine in a desert Down Under. While the population of Parsis in India shrank by 18% between 2001 and 2011, the people strength of the intriguingly named Parsi-Parlo, a subdistrict in Kurung Kumay area of Arunachal Pradesh, the northeastern state that borders China, grew by 316% from 2,891 to 9,152 in the same period, according to the last census. The subdistrict consists of 65 villages, each with populations varying between 42 (Dare village) and 365 (Gonang village) individuals,......