Without vultures, fate of Indian Parsi ‘sky burials’ uncertain
Solar panels replace extinct scavengers while decomposing corpses continue to be heaped at India’s ‘Tower of Silence’. Baba Umar 7 Apr 2015 Mumbai, India – It is a thorny issue that beleaguers this fast diminishing community daily – how to preserve a 3,000-year-old ritual of giving “sky burials” to the Parsi dead amid a nearly extinct […]