{"id":63803,"date":"2024-05-04T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/04\/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan"},"modified":"2024-05-04T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T05:00:35","slug":"our-culture-is-dying-vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63803","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our culture is dying\u2019: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called <em>dakhma,<\/em> or \u201ctowers of silence\u201d. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of earth, fire and water, from being contaminated by corpses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/04\/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient customTraditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[337,1777,62,448,212,60,647,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-death-and-dying","category-india","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63804,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63803\/revisions\/63804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}