A thought for today
In Mumbai, India, young Parsi boys attend the Dadar Athornan Madressa, a school where they receive secular education in addition to instruction in the arts of being a priest. In this gallery of images of contemporary Parsis, there is one of three of the boys in front of the school by a blackboard with a verse from the medieval Persian poet Firdawsi - the thought for the day as they enter the school:
Look at the Heavens,
How they roll on;
And look at man,
How soon he is gone.
A breath of wind and then no more;
A world like this, should man deplore?