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August 12 is the 102nd birth anniversary of legendary physicist Vikram Sarabhai. As I was flipping through a beautifully-produced book on the space pioneer brought out by Dehradun-based Natraj Publishers and authored by Padmanabh Joshi.
There is deep sense of loss setting in about the Parsis, a vanishing Indian community, who originally migrated from Persia to protect Zoroastrianism. Their settlement in India is one of the greatest examples of fusion of two cultures and exemplary peaceful coexistence of two starkly different religions in the history of mankind.
Here was a small tribe that migrated to one corner of the Indian subcontinent and for more than 1300 years faced not one conflict or discrimination in their adopted land. However, the long journey of this happiest amalgamation of two different societies may have tragically entered its final lap.