As our country is currently in turmoil on the issue of religion, I would like to share my experience in France where I was a student from January 1958 to December 1961. Most of the French people I came across had problems in placing my nationality. With my Parsi complexion, I looked neither Asian nor European. When I said I was an Indian from India their immediate comment was: "So, you are a Hindu." In France, for the man in the street Indian meant Red Indian from North America. Only the upper classes of society were aware of Zoroastrianism and......