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Sign in the Hanging Garden*, Malabar Hill
Bombay/Mumbai, taken March 05/07
Sign in the Playground, Union Square
New York, taken Jan 25, 07
Just next to the Hanging Garden, slightly down Malabar Hill, is a large walled off, natural area. A few centuries ago, it was on the outskirts of the city, although now it is surrounded by high rises. This is the Tower of Silence where adherents of the Parsi faith, a religion descended from Zoroastrianism, lay out their dead to be devoured by vultures. They believe in neither burial nor cremation. A shortage of vultures has made the community consider building a huge net over the area so that the vultures stay at their job.
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