The Parsis are rapidly vanishing. In India as a whole, there are currently just about 50,000 members of this community. However, the Parsis have made outstanding contributions to their chosen country since they arrived from Central Asia somewhere during the seventh and tenth centuries. In the last century or so, individuals with names like Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Petit, Homi Bhabha, Sam Manekshaw, Jamsetji Tata, Ardeshir Godrej, Cyrus Poonawalla, Zubin Mehta, and Farrokh Bulsara (also known as Freddie Mercury) have made significant contributions in every field from nuclear physics to rock and roll. The most intimate history of the Parsis is presented in this newly edited and updated edition by senior journalist and columnist Coomi Kapoor, who is also a Parsi. The book pores through the names, stories, achievements and the continuing success of this tiny but extraordinary minority. She delves deep into both the question of what it means to be Parsi in India, as well as how the community's contributions-from tanchoi silk to chikoos-became integral to what it meant to be Indian. In Kapoor's hands, the story of the Parsis becomes a rip-roaring, incident-filled adventure: from dominating the trade with China to being synonymous with Bombay, once, arguably, a city defined by its Parsis; from the business success of the Tatas, the Mistrys, the Godrejs and the Wadias, to such current contributions as the manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines by the Parsi-founded Serum Institute of India.