The Parsis are fast disappearing. There are now only around 50000 members of the community in all of India. But since their arrival here from Central Asia somewhere between the eighth and tenth centuries the Parsis' contribution to their adopted home has been extraordinary. The history of India over the last century or so is filigreed with such contributions in every field from nuclear physics to rock and roll by names such as Dadabhai Naoroji Dinshaw Petit Homi Bhabha Sam Manekshaw Jamsetji Tat