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This message was paid for by the British Red Cross. My name is Sean Walker. I'm the Guardian Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent and I'm the Guardian's Central and Eastern Europe correspondent, and I'm the author of The Last of the

Zorastrians, which was published in August 2020.

This is partly a family story and the first time when I thought I really needed to write this was in the summer of 2017 when my grandfather who had spent his whole life practicing the Zoroastrian faith

passed away in Mumbai.

I reported this article in the weeks just when the pandemic was starting to make

itself felt in the spring of 2020 and it came out in August of 2020 and I think one thing for many of these Zoroastrian community that I write about in India

the pandemic was obviously a very hard time because there's a lot of them old a lot of them live alone and I think a lot of them

actually died during this period this is a kind of story of a slow decline over centuries. So I think it's something that is as relevant today as it was then.

And I think it's maybe not only about Zoroastrians this story, but it's about this idea of the increasing secularization everywhere in the world, people turning away from religions and even if you don't believe in the God

should you keep some traditions, is it good to keep these close-knit communities or is that

actually a bit toxic and it's better to mingle

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