With the Parsis, there’s always reason to celebrate, to drink and dance, to twist and shout. There are always deliciously funny stories to be told about one’s wife, and tender, loving ones about one’s bike. And anything can be a feast if it’s "par-eedu (on eggs)!”
A little known fact about the community is that they are also great connoisseurs of the body. One winter’s evening every year, hundreds of Parsis throng to a dusty mid-town baug to celebrate the community’s most able, muscular bodies at an annual Zoroastrian power-lifting and bodybuilding championship.
(Top) Adi Patel, at 75 years, hangs upside down;......