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The pen and the Parsis

The Parsi contribution to Indian literature is analyzed at a seminar
Firdaus Gandavia

"There is a lot of Parsiness in your writing. I don’t think you have to worry about where it is. The mantras of social justice, class divide, moral righteousness and wrongness are very Parsi attributes,” commented session chairperson Dr Nilufer Bharucha on the apprehension novelist Murzban Shroff had about "never seeing myself as a Parsi writer (and) about the bane of being a bawa.” The exchange between the former head of the Bombay University (BU) English department and the writer took place at the inaugural session of a one-day seminar titled "The Parsi contribution to Indian literature” at Sir Pherozeshah......



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