Crematorium

Maharashtra's marginalised face discrimination even in death as state govt fails to offer burial, cremation grounds

A lack of burial and cremation grounds in rural Maharashtra especially Marathwada region shows that there's no respite for Dalits, Muslims, and other marginalised communities even in death

MP tribal forced to cremate wife using garbage after being turned away by crematorium

A tribal in Madhya Pradesh had to gather waste paper, tyres, twigs and plastic bags to cremate his wife after he was turned away from a crematorium.

Saying goodbye to your furry friends: Mumbai's pets to get two crematoriums and a burial ground

Mumbai will soon get not one but two cemeteries along with a gas crematoriums that is solely for pet animals.

An icon beyond labels: Man, woman or Rituparno?

Middle-class society should never have accepted Rituparno Ghosh. His audacity was he dared to show up on our television screens as himself - articulate, erudite, just in a gender-bending salwar-achkan.