A World Of Silence

Date

August 29, 2007

Post by

arZan

Category

Heritage

A friend recently attended the last journey of a Parsi friend and noted how a Parsi funeral was so peaceful, had a sense of calm, but in the same breath she wondered whether this kind of ‘quiet’ could actually lead to catharsis. Her worry made me wonder, has the occasional ‘awkward silence’ graduated to acquire a perpetual awkward status? Does noise comfort us?

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