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Parsi kirtankar’s 100th

Parvez Katrak, Gandhian, Kabir exponent, creator of Zarathushtrian kirtans (recitation of devotional songs or chants), community server, passed away in 2015, 10 years shy of his birth centenary on February 11, 2025. His mother, Jalamai, wife of mobed Jamshedji, had a difficult delivery. The fetus was in breach position and the distraught parents prayed that the child would not follow his siblings to the grave virtually at birth. Their prayers were answered, and the child grew up with whatever little material comforts his parents could afford. Love he got in unbounded measure. And discipline. From this humble background the lad would......



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