For quite some time now, the merits and demerits of dakhmenashini are being discussed by the Zarathoshtis of India and in Gujarati publications like Jam-e-Jamshed and The Bombay Samachar. This has opened a Pandora’s box among other communities with Dhun Baria giving an interview on TV and showing a video clip of the shabby interiors of our dakhmas.
Over the years the Hindu system of disposal of the dead has undergone much change, in keeping with the times. Earlier a Hindu corpse was taken to a smashanbhumi (burning ghat) where it was placed on a bier, covered with wood and burnt.......