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(Optional) Enter email address if you would like feedback about your tag. This fire temple remains the functioning temple for the Parsis of Calcutta (Giara, 2002, p. 84). Bombay Supreme Court 23.

Calcutta also emerged as a center of shipbuilding in the late 18th century. The prophet Zarathushtra insisted on a reverence for all elements. Community Support Blog About Us The bones are left until they’re sun-bleached when they’re moved to a pit in the middle of the tower. And plunged the towers of silence – and an aging community – into seismic controversy. But the towers are now far from silent. Writers Building, Kolkata 22. J.R.B. Parsi involvement in the film industry grew out of Parsi participation in theater. R.R. India’s vulture population had seen a steady decline due to habitat destruction caused by that omnibus aggressor, urbanisation. The tower of silence is a circular walled structure containing platforms and a central well that functions as a repository for the Parsi dead in line with the Zoroastrian funerary practice of exposure (see CORPSE; Modi, 1922 [repr. Bagmari Muslim Kabristan, Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. M.D. In 1902 Madan held a projection show in a tent in Calcutta, and by the 1930s Madan and his sons controlled a theater empire across India that included 126 theaters (Rangoonwalla, 2004, pp. From the 19th century onward Bombay became the principal Parsi center and the headquarters of the Parsis of India. Records:. Photo by: PP Yoonus [CC BY-SA 3.0] Three concentric rings make up the roof of the tower. Calcutta became a center of Parsi settlement from the 18th century. So, cocooned in the goodwill they enjoy, they are left very much to their own practices. D.L. X, Leiden, pp.