Forty-six years after the denial of funerary prayers for my father, the powers that be, in another agiary, in another city, replicated the despicable behavior.
I mention this in light of the Parsiana editorial "No rites for the ‘wrong,’” Farrokh Jijina’s article "Rites and rights,” and Mehroo Kotval’s letter "Priest and prejudice” (Parsiana, October 21-November 6, 2020) about the denial of funerary prayers by the panthaky of the Karani Agiary in Cusrow Baug for the late Baug resident Bahadur Hansotia. It reminded me of the time when my late father Sheheryar Kaoosji (pictured) was denied funerary rites because, to respect his......