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0:33[Music]
0:39[Music]
0:50[Music]
1:01[Music]
1:23[Music]
1:53[Music]
2:19[Music]
2:42[Music]
2:51[Music]
2:54what does it mean to be a passing to me
2:57I think it is God's gift to me that he
2:59has made we have
3:01[Music]
3:09pass this community in India still
3:11stands for qualities that are good that
3:14are honorable that are decent and I'm
3:16proud to be one of
3:19[Music]
3:28those
3:32[Music]
3:39what I love most about the community is
3:41our sense of humor and I feel if we lose
3:44that then we lose
3:46[Music]
3:53everything I love being a Pary I love
3:56the idea that I enjoy all kinds of food
3:59I love the idea that the community is
4:01seen as a slightly eccentric slightly
4:03weird slightly strange Community but
4:06very
4:12loved for me being a Pary is really
4:14about a certain morality about growing
4:17up with uh good words good thoughts Good
4:19Deeds M I think somewhere it seeps down
4:22in
4:23you
4:26handsome in sism the religion is is very
4:30optimistic we believe that every moment
4:33things are improving and our belief is
4:36that we have to generate good thoughts
4:39words and deeds but importantly words
4:41and deeds to bring about an ethical
4:44awareness into the world and in doing so
4:47being happy within and promoting Harmony
4:51in the environment that I would say to
4:54you is the zor asan
4:58message
5:00the fravashi is in my view seen as the
5:04essence of God in man the wings of the
5:07fravashi represent the spiritual world
5:10the body of the fravashi represents the
5:12physical world and the head of the
5:16fravashi represents
5:19Consciousness it's now seen as a Zur
5:23asan icon of
5:28identity the the first important ritual
5:32that zor asan undergoes is the
5:35initiation ceremony known as the
5:38Nao an underest known as the sudre is
5:42given to the child and a cord made of
5:47Lamb's
5:48wool it's obviously tied three times
5:51round the waist and this na ceremony is
5:55done by an ordained
5:58priest
6:01in ZM we have this one life to live this
6:04life has to be lived in the most
6:07comfortable possible
6:10way there is no concept of fasting
6:14celibacy flagellation of the body in
6:17other words generate wealth it's a
6:19religion which in fact encourages
6:21capitalism but capitalism with a very
6:24important social responsibility that if
6:26you made a lot of money you must learn
6:29to
6:58carrots
7:12[Music]
7:25[Applause]
7:28is
7:35[Music]
7:56into
7:58now
8:03[Music]
8:05ever
8:09[Music]
8:11all
8:13[Music]
8:28all
8:43remember that for any colonizing par a
8:48agent group of community or a group of
8:51community who acted as commission agents
8:53were very important if trade had to
8:55thrive the pares knew how to Source uh
8:59or where to Source goods and they were
9:02able to deliver to the British what they
9:05wanted um there was also the ability of
9:08the pares who by then had learned
9:10English so it was easy for them to deal
9:13with whereas other communities in India
9:16was still um maybe a step below the Pary
9:20simply because in terms of communication
9:22in terms of creating a raor the paries
9:26were way ahead every kind of service was
9:28given to the British so if they wanted
9:30sail makers or if they wanted rope
9:33makers even if they were not present in
9:35Bombay they were Source from the many
9:38villages of Gujarat and therefore you
9:40see migrations and waves of pares coming
9:43into Bombay between
9:461680 and 1780 over a period of 100 years
9:49more and more pares came
9:58in
10:02for most passes uh Bombay is the only
10:05home we
10:08have a lot of us don't have an ancestral
10:12Village to go back to so Bombay is all
10:15we
10:18[Music]
10:21know we've been here so long we've been
10:24here practically since the beginnings of
10:26the city we've helped to build it we
10:28have such strong associations with it we
10:31have such strong Nostalgia about
10:36[Music]
10:58it
11:00you know we are really a very very
11:03integral part of the city and the city
11:05is a very integral part of us I don't
11:08think we had an identity crisis where we
11:09suddenly said oh God who am I where do I
11:11come from it only happens when people
11:13ask us questions and if you ask your
11:15father where do you come from he say
11:16from RE
11:18Kandi which is the hospital room 501
11:21apparently don't have a memory I was
11:22inside the womb uh the female and then
11:26you but that's for all not just parses
11:28you come out from the same place the
11:30pares were certainly very closely
11:33aligned uh with the British almost twins
11:36in Partnership and when Independence
11:39happened the pares at least the top Pary
11:42industrialists had to make a huge leap
11:45perhaps the pares did it most
11:48successfully were those like the Tartas
11:51who moved into industrialization of
11:54India so if you are participating in the
11:57development and industrialization of of
11:59a new country you become part of that
12:01Elite group they must have felt orphaned
12:04in my opinion with the British moving
12:06away and they had to uh sort of
12:10renegotiate their position in Modern
12:13India
12:15now last year was The Diamond Jubilee
12:19celebration of her majesty Queen
12:27Elizabeth they were all
12:30celebrated in
12:32England and she was so good and so sweet
12:38to remember me so the queen sent me her
12:42full size picture from
12:45London and I have got it PR you like to
12:49see yes there she is there she is next
12:52to the her
12:58majesty
13:05[Music]
13:52aachi really enjoys the food at the
13:54table really but they want good food I
13:57like food to be like nice
14:00antika of course danaka is my favorite
14:04then masur is my favorite fish is my
14:07favorite and the vegetables for a passi
14:11is very difficult some passis say ATI
14:14vegetables banado so I make it for them
14:17but to give them a meal with a vegetable
14:20dish and not even if you put meat in the
14:23vegetable like we have B go French beans
14:26go but they want
14:29Bas and no vegetables well there is the
14:33aroma which comes to
14:36you it goes to your nose then it goes to
14:39your head and then it goes to your
14:41stomach and your stomach expir z z z
14:46your tongue comes out po po po and then
14:50you start eating but mutton hot favorite
14:54mutton is the hot favorite of dby winner
14:58Pari food that be winner to be mutton
15:02mutton and mutton you can eat whatever
15:04you want there's no no beef no pork
15:06which is a good thing cuz I like my food
15:09and you know Pary food is the best like
15:11according to me like danak and all
15:14nothing beats
15:17[Music]
15:27that
15:31[Music]
16:04always cracking jokes making fun and
16:07they're very
16:09jovial but they are also very particular
16:12let me tell you one thing if a Pary
16:15comes on the cash counter he wants a
16:16fresh note you don't you can't possibly
16:19give him a Tor note or a soil
16:22note that is the characteristic of a uh
16:25the Pari is very honest they are very
16:28loyal
16:29then uh they are also uh very uh
16:35disciplined people like you won't find
16:38passy person will spit on the road I
16:41love that we argumentative I love that
16:44we have no central figure who's like a
16:47pope I love that it's so anarchic most
16:49of the time of course it's not good for
16:51the community to be like that but it's
16:53better than having a strong kind of
16:55dictator at the head of a community and
16:58I love that we are a bit eccentric a lot
17:01of the times sometimes inadvertently if
17:04I cross a red light uh and the policeman
17:08comes up to me I said haha mistake sorry
17:11sorry I'm finea so he
17:14says I said yeah he says I
17:19said he said to me in Hindi which is
17:22very bad where I speak he said youas are
17:24the only one who will not only admit to
17:27what you've done wrong but will insist
17:29on paying a fine cuz there's very few of
17:31us so I'm like a rare thing you know I'm
17:34exotic in my
17:35school I didn't know growing up that it
17:37was so small in the community in the
17:38sense that Mumbai is everything than it
17:40was Bombay uh so that's a bit strange
17:43actually suddenly the last 10 years
17:44people have woken up there along with
17:45the Great Indian bustard and the tiger
17:47the one Hound Rhino three of my favorite
17:50friends the par is also you know
17:51dwindling we find funny ways to express
17:55everything including something like
17:57death you know you know I mean there are
18:00four or five really fun ways to go about
18:03it one
18:04is one is another is uh which is one of
18:09my favorites photo
18:11frame you know I mean imagine being
18:14quirky about the most solemn things
18:17that's a lovely
18:20trade it means a face like an
18:23advertisement for castor
18:25oil when someone is very moros looking
18:29mutton shop they were all brains
18:32displayed one ask how much is that 50
18:35rupees why this belongs to this one this
18:38community this belongs to this community
18:41in the end when it goes to the 5,000
18:44rupes why so much this belongs to a why
18:49so expensive if you break 500 skulls you
18:52will get one
18:54brain so that is
18:57how we take care that is ridiculing but
19:02still people enjoy it so we say no
19:04breaks what happens to a Pary man with a
19:07hard on when he walks into a
19:09wall he breaks his
19:22nose he
19:24willay PS another string though he will
19:28pay
19:43Daddy was very sweet he used to take us
19:45to Hanging Gardens which is nearby and
19:47he said Johnny Johnny I'll teach him how
19:49to fetch the ball now you follow me and
19:51my dad would bend like that and throw a
19:53tennis ball and Figaro would not even
19:55look at it so every day he would go we
19:57would do this and then you know people
19:58would come to watch this old middle-aged
20:00Pary man go and pick up a ball in his
20:02mouth to show the dog and bring it
20:05back you know and but he never learned
20:08how to fetch the ball I mean my dad did
20:10but the dog didn't if there's a little
20:12thing happening because it is a b
20:15involved they take the total Liberty to
20:19accentuate the whole thing like if I
20:23were to tell
20:24you you are very
20:27beautiful so and someone
20:29do you know what Sam told that girl can
20:33you imagine
20:34any when he supposed to go up God knows
20:38where he's telling this
20:47girl and you are so tall and you're so
20:50gracious so that fellow goes and tell
20:57another
21:16so everyone goes on adding and adding
21:19and adding and adding and that is how
21:23something
21:24[Music]
21:27gross
21:28[Music]
21:53[Music]
22:21we do not realize being so small in
22:24numbers that we have a responsibility to
22:28community which has given us so much to
22:31a nation which has given us so much here
22:33the nation is telling us produce kids
22:36we're giving you money to produce kids
22:39and we then still say no no we want to
22:40marry out doesn't make sense to me but I
22:44think that children whose mothers are
22:46Pary and whose fathers are not it's
22:49absurd it's absurd to keep them out in
22:51light of morality in light of gender
22:53equality everything uh it's crazy that
22:56we go to such lengths to keep them out
22:59that's my feeling what you're asking is
23:01a very simplistic rationale that people
23:05come up with open our doors and those
23:07kids are going to become marvelous zans
23:11what are we interested in increasing zor
23:14asrian or increasing the number of pares
23:19which means to increase our ethnic stock
23:23how can ethnic stock increase if one
23:26marries out can zor astranis accepted
23:30from a religious point of view the
23:32answer is capital no And as far as we're
23:35concerned custom and tradition which
23:38always has to take precedence the custom
23:41and tradition is that a girl marrying
23:43out ceases to be a zor asran it's not
23:47something new it's been said by our
23:49learned priests for the last 100 years
23:51or so if a girl is married to a nonpar
23:54according to the spatial Marriage Act of
23:571954 when she's following a ro religion
24:01I don't understand why we can stop her
24:03from practicing the ation
24:06religion so this little bit of change
24:10will bring peace in the community and it
24:13will I'm not encouraging the interfet
24:16marriage by saying all these things but
24:18this are the problems where the youth
24:20are getting disintegrated from the
24:22community we are trying instead of make
24:25a fabric we are trying to break the
24:28fabric of the community historically
24:31Iranian Society has been agnetic this is
24:34not something you and I can change this
24:36is a legacy of history but should we
24:38change to something even worse by
24:42opening the doors for our girls so that
24:44there's a greater chance of more and
24:46more people marrying out as a result of
24:49which our ethnicity is weaken generation
24:52after generation that is the issue we
24:54have to think of we don't try to
24:57understand each other we just want to
24:59put our thoughts like this are my
25:00thoughts that's it it has to be like
25:02this because we have not done this in so
25:04many years we should not do it again but
25:07then there are so many things which we
25:09are not doing since we came from Iran
25:13and we have
25:14changed and we have the change is the
25:16most important thing and if we don't
25:18change we are not going to
25:27survive
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