A sepia-toned look at New Year celebrations in Agra
Rusi Sorabji
Prior to the Internet making the countdown to the biggest Zoroastrian festival, Nou Rooz, simple, it was quite different in the 1930s when our family went to Agra to celebrate Nou Rooz with our Irani maternal grandparents, aunts and uncles and had to await the arrival of a telegram from Iran to intimate us of the precise time and date of the occurrence of the equinox i.e. the exact moment when to greet the new day, Nou Rooz. The telegram also mentioned something that we never clearly understood, the name of the animal Jamshedi would be riding and the color......