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No cocktails, we’re Parsi

"Our ancestors did not come here (to India) to make a cocktail,” said Bombay Parsi Punchayet chairman Yazdi Desai. He was chief guest at the 171st salgirah of Cusrow Baug’s Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary on February 2, 2018. "These people who say that ours is a universal religion are wrong…Our forefathers had sacrificed material wealth only to preserve their religious identity…There is this woman from Delhi who was asking for scriptural evidence that intermarriage is not allowed…I say to her, we have our great traditions, we do not need scriptural evidence,” he said. The reference was to veteran journalist Bachi......



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