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How Supply Chains Killed a Religion
10 min
The Zoroastrian community faces an existential crisis not from persecution, but from the logistics of modern burial and urban sprawl. This episode explores how global infrastructure and a veterinary drug quietly dismantled an ancient ritual requiring geographical isolation.
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Exploration of the Zoroastrian funeral rite of Dokhmenashini.
Analysis of the Indian vulture crisis and the impact of the drug Diclofenac.
Discussion of urban development on Mumbai's Malabar Hill and its impact on the Doongerwadi forest.
Overview of the theological requirements for sky burial in Zoroastrianism.
Examination of modern alternatives like solar desiccation and the rise of Parsi crematoriums.
In this episode
- 1Intro1 min
- 2The Theology of the Tower2 min
- 3The Vulture Crisis3 min
- 4Urban Encroachment and the Smell of Death2 min
- 5Technological and Social Fractures2 min
- 6Outro1 min
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