Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Zoroastrian community has given the world Freddie Mercury, produced some of India’s richest businessmen and practises one of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. Yet the community faces extinction: there are less than 200,000 Zoroastrians left worldwide. Shazneen is one of them. She is 31, lives in London and is on the lookout for someone to settle down with. The problem? Members of her small community can only marry other Zoroastrians.
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| 0:00.0 | How do you save one of the oldest religions from dying out? |
| 0:07.0 | I love my community. I love my religion. It's a way of life for me. |
| 0:11.0 | That's what young Zorastrians are grappling with. I feel like I've got |
| 0:14.4 | a some degree like responsibility towards of keeping the Zorastrian faith going. |
| 0:19.5 | For many of them marrying someone from the same faith is the only way to do it. |
| 0:25.0 | It's like an international search at this stage. |
| 0:30.0 | Hundreds of young Zowastrians are heading to LA to party, but also for another reason. |
| 0:36.2 | To find a husband, full on to find a husband. |
| 0:40.8 | But can they find love in just five days? |
| 0:44.0 | Looks aren't everything, but they help. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Nalny Civadarsen, and this is looking for love, |
| 0:51.0 | the Zoastrian way way on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:54.4 | Oh, I just get the sauceman. |
| 1:01.2 | I always have the strong desire to have Zoroastrian friends. I have lots of Hindu friends, Christian friends, Sikh friends. |
| 1:07.0 | So I thought the best way for me to get involved in the community was to join the young Zoroastrian committee and then the rest is history. I know everyone now. |
| 1:16.0 | 31 year old Shazinin Munchi is from London. She's petite with long black hair and has a successful career in finance. |
| 1:27.0 | She recently bought her first house and has a busy social life. |
| 1:32.0 | But one thing's missing someone to share that all with. |
| 1:36.0 | What are you looking for in a guy? |
| 1:38.0 | So I would say that I'm looking for someone who is a kind person, caring, good sense of humour and someone |
| 1:48.9 | who's just down to earth. |
| 1:50.9 | Shaznine follows Zoastrianism, one of the oldest religions in the world. |
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