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            Entrance to the Zoroastrian (followers are also known as Parsis) funeral grounds. The dead are 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 the tenets of the ancient religion, can the soul be freed.

Parsis have placed their dead in a "dhokma," or Tower of Silence, to await the vultures at Malabar Hill — now the city's wealthiest neighborhood — since 1673. 
 
Followers of the Bronze Age Persian prophet Zarathustra, Parsis worship fire, so cremating the dead is a mortal sin, while burial is seen as a contamination of the earth. But the vulture is precious to Parsis who believe it releases the spirits of the dead. 
 
Over the past 15 years, millions of vultures have died from eating cattle carcasses tainted by a painkiller given to sick cows. Conservationists estimate that more than 90 percent of India's vultures have died.

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Taken in: India / Maharashtra / Mumbai (show map)

Taken on: November 6, 2007

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Camera: NIKON E8800, f/4.5, 1/101 sec, 8.9mm, ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	NIKON E8800
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/101)
Focal Length:	8.9mm
ISO:	50
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0 Macintosh
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