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On this episode, we talk with Iona Italia about he experiences a returning Parsi (she was raised in Europe) to the Indian subcontinent. She is the host of Two for Tea podcast, an editor of Areo Magazine, and a contributor to Letter Wiki.
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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It was a nice podcast.
Parsi exclusivity almost reminded me of Brahminism 🙂
There was a Parsi kid I used to play with in Surat when I was quite young. I heard a few years ago that he had become a priest, which seemed weird to me but considering how rare a commodity they are, it makes sense now.
When i was a child my mom described Parsis as Muslim ( since they share common surnames) Baniyas ??
With regards to Mumbai naming.
It was called Bombay in English, Bambai in Hindi, and Mumbai in Marathi and Gujarati.
This was never really an issue till the 90s with the rise of anti-Hindi speaker sentiment.
Shiv Sena (Marathi populist party) was responsible for the name change.
Elite institutions resisted the change for eg. IIT-Bombay is still called IIT-Bombay.