bhai kidher Iran aur kidher bichara India?.......the last Indian unifiers of the greater North India/ Pakistan only region was Ashok and before him Chandragupta Maurya. Only a couple of hundred years combined or so no? After that there was no empire.
Are you aware of Iranian history? Iran beats India by 2000 years combined vs barely 200 years for India in being sovereign.
Iran India ka baap hae!
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Do you remember this post of mine from June or July this year?
About Iranis.
It was in response to something you said about Iranis in general being self effacing ...
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Iranis keep quiet because engaging on their past forces them to also engage on the millennial spiritual and mental gymnastics of explaining their Muslim present. That is the bottom line.
I've engaged with generations of conflicted Iranians on the old forum. Many reached out off the forum wanting to know more about Zoroastrianism and how they could revert.
There was one shameless ungrateful twat who was settled in the Netherlands. Trying to pass his qualification exam to become a English teacher for international translators. Basically he had ro reach English to different nationalities.
There was an online exam where he spent 3 hours with me in the phone (WhatsApp) sending me the questions one by one as they appeared online, and I told him the answer.
The results come instantaneously and he scored in the low 90s, obviously qualified this very difficult exam, and in fact was the top percentiles as I recall.
Anyways, long story short, I blocked him a few months later.
In London, at Holland & Barrett's, their over 150 year old pharmacy chain, I went with a long WhatsApp list of Bach flower remedy medicines my wife wanted me to pick up.
The very sweet girl serving me, took nearly 3 hours sitting on the floor with hundreds of vials spread all around, with two junior helpers, to get all in my list, and then also make sure all had at least 2 years of shelf life remaining.
She was wearing a cream hijab.
She looked like a Parsi. So I got talking to her and asked her where she was from. She said, you guessed it, Iran. I was delighted. And told her I was a Parsi Zoroastrian. She gave me a big beaming smile, especially when I showed her my Faravahr around my neck.
But she then said something really really melancholic, that shook me to the roots of my being. I told my wife and kids when I got back to India too.
She said, You people have such a glorious history.
I was a little confused. I told her, WE people have the same glorious history.
To which a really sad hopeless look passed across her face, and sge looked down , and gesticulated with her hands as if swatting something away. And shook her head and said in a soft low voice, Oh we, no ..., anyway ..., trailing off.
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They've lost their mojo bhai.
And its safe with us.
Cheers, Doc
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