Dr Firdaus Gandavia’s review of Berjis Desai’s Towers of Silence (Books, Parsiana, March 7-20, 2022) left me rather pensive and bewildered. This was just after I had finished reading the book and felt truly gratified with it. In a way, I felt fortunate because it would probably have deterred me from engaging with it, had I happened to read the review beforehand. While that is not how it’s supposed to be, unfortunately we all have finite time on our hands and therefore quite a few of us do lay some store by a book review which predisposes us in our......