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Somewhere outside the small dakhma in Doongerwadi, there is a platform, upon which none dare sleep at night. Late Dervish Irani, the uncrowned king of the pallbearers, who devoted his life preserving Doongerwadi, was the only one to do so. Anyone else was flung from it with great force and suffered severe fright. We have corroborated this story from Irani himself and other staff at the Towers of Silence. The Grand Paradi buildings and a row of bungalows overlook the Bombay dakhmas. Crows and kites deposit remains plucked from the undisposed bodies lying in the dakhmas. Decades ago, when we......