“The funeral pyre was moments from being lit when a movement on the bier triggered panic among staff at the crematorium in southern India. Then, as they rushed to examine the elderly woman under the shroud, her three sons suddenly abandoned their ‘mourning’ and fled … In a shocking example of India’s growing disregard for its elderly citizens, Arti Padmati, a 75-year-old widow, narrowly escaped being cremated alive by her own children earlier this month.”

The Torygraph on changing Indian society, here.

Posted Sunday, February 25th, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
Filed in community and social, human rights, politics

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