The airing on the front page of The Times of India of the social and economic grievances of the Doongerwadi pallbearers aroused considerable community ire. This was supposed to remain our shameful secret and now everyone knew how we treat our corpse bearers. There was little outrage expressed over the existence of an economically deprived and socially outcaste sub-culture that serves to consign the Parsi dead to their final resting place. Indeed one community commentator while endorsing the call for volunteers to carry the funeral biers into the Towers of Silence termed some of the khandhias and nassessalars wife......