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In Madagascar, people practice Famadihana, or ‘the turning of the bones’, a ritual that sometimes amuses people and makes them uncomfortable too. After every seven years, families exhume their ancestors, rewrap their remains in fresh cloth, and dance with them. In Famadihana, death is not an end but a transition, and these rituals are a…
NEW DELHI: When Manmohan Singh‘s daughter Upinder Singh lit the pyre of the former PM, she was following the Sikh tradition of not allowing differentiation on gender lines in who leads rituals linked to cremation. Members of the Sikh community point out that their women have for long carried out rituals on the passing of…