Hindus urged to adopt 'green' cremation
Hindus urged to adopt 'green' cremation
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One Indian group offers a method that uses less wood to burn bodies. Some are wary. VARANASI, India — Cremation fires crackle all day long on the chipped concrete steps of this riverside holy city, the blazes spewing ash and flakes over the mourners who crowd its famous piers. Sweating, bare-chested men stoke the funeral pyres, squinting against the sting of smoke as they lug and stack the bundles of logs needed to burn the procession of Hindu dead. |
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News entry number 354 added on Sep 3, 2007 in the World News category.
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