Godrej family is a wealthy Parsi family of India. The founder of their empire, Ardeshir Godrej, initially studied law but later went into making locks and soaps. Today they are well known for manufacturing household items and healthcare products. In mid-1990s a member of the family, Ms. Smiti Crishna, made news or controversy by breaking with Zoroastrian custom by marrying a Christian man. Parsi is: A person from Pars (the middle-Persian word for Fars), a region now within the geographical boundaries of Iran, and is roughly the original homeland of the Persian people. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Zoroastrianism was adapted from an earlier, polytheistic faith by Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) in Persia very roughly around 1000 BC (although, in the absence of written records, some scholars estimates are as late as 600 BC). ...
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