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Not Universal if not United.

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The Iranis, a group of Zoroastrians who emigrated to India a hundred years ago, were met with suspicion and hesitant acceptance by their thousand-year-old brethren, the Parsis, to whom, they were a mixed bunch of plausible converts that followed a different calendar. To the Zoroastrian posterity, the very distinction would've sounded alien, but surely they can imagine how they would've taken the initial divide of which wisps still remain? In an unsurprising eadem, sed aliter, we see the locus shift to another group- the converts and those of only maternal Zoroastrian ancestry in mixed marriages, who somehow according to tradition shouldn't belong to the good religion. I have come across many Kurds and Iranians conveying their crushed hopes of being accepted by many of us, not only in India, or online, but even Internationally. Why do we call ourselves the champions of progress when we wish to keep such exclusivity? In no way does this mean that the ethnoreli...