Your editorial "Honoring the heritage” (Parsiana, April 21, 2017) strikes a note in honor of the Bombay Parsee Association (BPA) which "is doing more than honoring the long dead.” Let me make an observation poetically for the honored dead, standing as statues in the city:
Crows choose to sit/ On the statue that stands/ They soon defile it/ For the crow never understands.
Mobed Mehraban Firouzgary clarifies, ("Development of dakhmas,” Readers’ Forum, Parsiana, April 21, 2017), "No dakhma is functional any more in Iran… To the best of my knowledge, the one in village Cham was the last one to be sealed......