The current controversy besetting the community is related to the disposal of Covid-19 affected dead bodies. According to the Bombay Municipal Corporation guidelines, safety measures need to be taken and all such bodies have to be cremated or buried. The High Priests and trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet wisely permitted four days’ post death prayers in fire temples for such persons, but a section of traditionalists in our community comprising well-known scholars and priests put up opposition, stating "dakhmenashini is the only permissible and doctrinally right method of disposal of our dead and that other mode of disposal for......