For centuries, the Zoroastrian dead have been wrapped in white muslin and left at a leafy funeral ground on downtown Mumbai’s Malabar Hill, where they are devoured by vultures. Only then, according to ...

Parsis brought their Zoroastrian faith, and unique funeral rituals, to India from Iran a thousand years ago. Parsis believe burying or cremating... Vanishing Vultures A Grave Matter For India's Parsis ...

The government has told the Supreme Court it will not change cremation/burial protocols for the bodies of those who died of COVID-19 in order to accommodate funeral rites of the Parsi community, who ...

While it is unclear if Ratan Tata's funeral rites will be conducted following the Parsi rituals, the Zoroastrian community considers the natural elements to be sacred and therefore they believe by ...

Mumbai: For the first time in the recorded history of the 350-year-old Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), the central trust of Parsi-Zoroastrians, the body of a former chairman was cremated and not given a ...

Mumbai: The last rites of Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Group, was conducted on Thursday at the Worli municipal crematorium where the Parsis have built a prayer hall. Tata is among many ...

The BMC has barred the Parsi practice of letting the bodies of community members dying of Coronavirus decay naturally saying traces of the virus could spread through pallbearers Most Parsis are ...