A Compendium of Zoroastrian Life & Culture

Cama, Shernaz (ed.). 2016. Threads of continuity: Zoroastrian life & culture. New Delhi: Parzor Foundation.

Threads of Continuity Focuses on the philosophy and cultur of the ancient Zoroastrian faith from its origins i Central Asia, tracing a geographical and chronological continum till the present. This philosophy became a part of the lived heritage of the Zoroastrian community — both in India and Iran.

Of dpecial interest are the cross-cultural influences of the comunity in India. To highlight these, Gujarat and the Deccan will be examined in detail for the first time.

A part of this compendium also studies the contribution of the community to the making of modern India. The programme envisaged, attempts to explain the Zoroastrian philodophy of a sacred thread linking all creation.

THREASD OF CONTINUITY: ZOROASTRIAN LIFE AND CULTURE
Shemaz Cama

• Zarathushtra and Zoroastrianism
• Persian Myth and History
• Zoroastrianism and the West: Classical to the Neo-Ciassical Period
• Languages and Texts
• Zoroastrianism: A Living Heritage
• The Story of the Parsis in lndia
• Bombay
• Parsis of the Deccan
• Women: Keepers of the Zoroastrian Tradition
• Threads of Continuity: Art and Culture

COMPENDIUM

• Burzine Waghmor: “lridiscent Iran: Persian Palimpsest, Mazdean Mosaic”
• Daryoosh Akbarzadeh: “The Collapse of the Sasanian Empire: Zoroastrianism and Specific Toponyms”
• Shahin Bekhradnia: “Zoroastrian Ufe in Yazd, Iran”
• Vanshiko Singh: “Interview with Mobed Mehraban Firouzgary”
• Keki Daruwalla: “Of Zarathushtra”
• Kianoosh Rezania: “Circumambulation of the Fire in Contemporary Zoroastrianism and its Variants in Shiite Iran”
• KE Eduljee: “The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi Tusi”
• Mojgan Jahanoro: “The Zarthushti Bridal Shawl”
• Shemaz Cama: “Parsi Embroidery:An lntercultural Amalgam”
• Anton Zykov: “Zoroastrian Funeral Practices: Transition in Conduct”
• Firoze M Kotwal with assistonce from Daniel Sheffield: “A Treasury of Zoroastrian Manuscripts: The First Dastoor Meherjirana Library, Navsari”
• Peshoton Dastur Hormozdyor Mirza: “The Holy lranshah Atash Behram in Udvada: A Religious ldentity of Parsi and Irani Zoroastrians”
• Romiyar P Karanjia: “My Years at the Dadar Athornan Institute: Dadar Madressa”
• Kritika Mudgaf: “Surat & the Parsis”
• Kavas Kapadia & Shernaz Cama: “A Zoroastrian View on Conservation of Natural Elements: The Tankas of Bharuch”
• Katy Rustom: “Dahanu Days”
• Farzan Mazda: “Walking Through the Bahrot Caves”
• Lote Khorshed Adi Sethna: “Madame Bhikaiji Rustom Cama: A Builder of Modern lndia”
• Dinyar Patel: “Dadabhai Naoroji: lntroduction and Excerpts”
• Marzban Jamshedji Giara: “Statues Come Alive: Parsis in the Making of Bombay”
• Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy: “The House ofTata: Homage to Values”
• Vanshika Singh: “Laws of the Medes and the Persians: An Interview with the Narimans”
• Yezdyar S Kaoosji: “Three Among Many: Forgotten Pioneers”
• MGK Menon: “An Extraordinary Indian”
• Shernaz Cama: “Field Sam Manekshaw, MC: A Photographie Assemblage”
• Debapnya Das: “Parsis and Philanthropy: Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital”
• Yezdyar S Kaoosji: “Kaoosji Dadabhai Talukhdar of Hyderabad: A Compilation”
• Jehangir Patel: “The Medium and the Message: Community Publications Serve the Cause of Nation-Building”
• Rashna Nieholsan: “Parsi Theatre: A Historical Perspective”
• Meher Marfatia: “Encore to an Era: Parsi Theatre of the Last One Hundred Years”
• Jehangir Cama: “Parsis in Western Classical Music”
• Firdaus Gandevia: “Art An Interview of Gieve Patel”
• Sam Bolsara & Lara Bolsara: “Be Responsible, Don’t Use A Condom Tonight!”
• Bachi Karkaria: “Bawdy Bornsie & Hilarious Hilla: Laughing All the Way to Extinction”
• Shemaz Cama & Vanshika Singh: “Khatta Meetha: A Descriptive Account of Parsi Food”
• Vanshika Singh: “B. Merwan and the Fallibility of Knowing”
• Meher Marker Noshirwani with Toxy Cowasjee: “The Parsi Community of Pakistan: Glimpses from Karachi & Quetta”
• Jamsheed K Choksy: “Zoroastrians of Sri Lanka: Persistence and Adaptation”
• Maleolm Deboo: “Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe: The Oldest Asian Religious Organisation in the Western World 1861-2016”
• Dolly Dastoor: “We are Tomorrow’s Past: Reflections from the North American Diaspora”
• Villie & Kersi Meher-Homji: “On Top Down Under: The Zoroastrians of Australia”
• Pheroza Daruwalla: “Down Under Diaspora: Sydney, New South Wales,Australia”
• Arzan Sam Wadia: “The Internet as an Armature for Zarathushti Dialogue in the Global Diaspora”
• Meher Bhesania: “Dubai, My City”
• Pardis Gheibi: “The Return to Roots Programme from an lranian Perspective”
• Anushae Parakh: “A Return to our Roots: Perspective from Pakistan”