Towers of Slience by Berjis Desai. Published in 2021 by Zero Degree Publishing, No.55(7), Second Floor, R Block, 6th Avenue, Anna Nagar, Madras, 600040. Pp: 407. Price: Rs 400.
If the reader thinks that Berjis Desai’s (pictured) Towers of Silence, as the title suggests, will be full of doom and gloom, he/she is mistaken. As we witnessed in his earlier books Oh! Those Parsis — A to Z of the Parsi Way of Life and The Bawaji: Chronicles of a Vanishing Community, Desai is very perceptive about describing the nature and the idiosyncrasies of the Parsi community. The author’s debut novel......