The pallbearer

The bodies of two Parsis killed in a car accident on the Western Express Highway were transported to the nearest morgue for a mandatory postmortem. A short, muscular man sporting long grey hair and a flowing grey beard, wearing a white headband and pantaloons, dashed barefoot into the morgue. The cops on duty greeted him warmly. He argued long and hard that no postmortem was necessary and the bodies be permitted to be taken to the Towers of Silence. The man in charge of the morgue was a stickler for rules. He was initially unimpressed by the articulate old man......



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Darvesh Irani was a kind and well respected man. He is the only person I can think of and know for sure that after the funeral prayers his body was taken to the Towers with his face uncovered so that the sweepers and malis could pay their last respects. That breed died with him.
- Hormazdiyar S Vakil
- 21-Jun-2019