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Author Archives: Meher Mirza

Meher Mirza is a food, travel and culture writer based in Mumbai, India. Formerly the Chief Copy and Features Editor at BBC Good Food India, she has written for BBC Travel, BBC Culture, CNN Travel, The Guardian, and other publications. She is currently working on a book for HarperCollins, on the history of Mumbai seen through the lens of food.

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How Parsis Came to Love Western Classical Music

by Meher Mirza February 29, 2024March 28, 2024

At any Western classical music performance that I attend in Mumbai, the audience is always a sea of elderly Parsis. (Parsis are a tiny community of Zoroastrians who migrated from Iran to India in the eighth century.) There were the regulars: the elderly gentleman with a scimitar nose, bobbing his head in time to the […]

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