Next year, after Uttarayan, the popular kite festival in January, which results in the injury or death of many birds including vultures due to the glass coated strings used to fly kites, the Ahmedabad Parsi Panchayat (APP) hope to "take in half a dozen of the inevitably injured birds (vultures)… and keep them in semi captivity near the Towers of Silence,” according to a report posted on coveringreligion.org dated April 24, 2017. Under a program known as Sangam, the students of the Covering Religion seminar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism had travelled to India in March of this......