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Languishing dakhmas

"Sadly we will fight for the religion and be willing to die for the religion... anything but live for it and live exercising prudence and wisdom,” wrote Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Noshir Dadrawala in response to pictures of the disused dakma in Ilav that were doing the rounds on WhatsApp in the third week of August 2018. "Hundred-and-twenty-year-old dakhma at Ilav village, now abandoned and neglected since many years, resulting in the growth of a huge tree inside, and vast land surrounding it... will slowly be encroached by neighboring landlords,” said the anonymous message, accompanied by three pictures. Ilav......



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