I was at Bhabha Bungli (No 1) to attend the paidust of a close relative. The pallbearers, as usual, after the geh sarna placed a white cloth with a few currency notes from their own pockets near the bier hinting that other mourners too place money next to the corpse. A few years back, I had brought this practice to the attention of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) as well as the late Dhunjishah Naterwalla, general secretary of the workers’ union, Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha. The common response, if any, is that pallbearers are difficult to source. The BPP must discipline......