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In pictures: Zoroastrians in Iran
BBC Photo Article – here.
Dwindling vultures spark row over Parsi tradition
Published: Sunday, 3 September, 2006, 11:24 AM Doha Time in Gulf Times
MUMBAI: A woman has ignited a furious row over the centuries-old tradition of using vultures to dispose of the dead by sending gruesome pictures of rotting corpses to hundreds of homes.
About three bodies a day from the dwindling Parsi community in India are left to be stripped clean at a private 45-acre complex in Mumbai but the practice is threatened by a dramatic decline in vulture numbers.
The Rise of Mercury
By Julie Mccaffrey
Originally published on September 2nd, 2006 in Mirror.co.uk
WHO would have thought that the shy, toothy 10-year-old sitting proudly behind his sports trophy would grow up to be one of the world’s most flamboyant superstars?
Yet it wasn’t for his athletic prowess that Farrokh Bulsara was to find fame, but as Freddie Mercury, the legendary frontman of rock band Queen.