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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

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Welcome to the Quillet podcast. I'm your host this week, Iona Italia. In this week's

podcast, I talk to author Nev March.

Nev and I are both members of the tiny ethnic minority, the Parsis, who are the descendants

of refugees who fled the early medieval Persian Empire for India between 9th and 12th centuries,

and who traditionally practice the ancient monotheistic religion of

Zoroastrianism. Nev frequently explores themes of race, religion, ethnicity and belonging

in her ongoing series of mystery novels, which began with murder in Old Bombay in 2020,

and feature a Parcy protagonist and her Anglo-Indian husband. I'm a huge fan of the novels

and talk to her in detail about murder and old Bombay in an earlier episode of this podcast. Nevis also

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