Every day, we face the loss of our own humanity
August 26, 2016 Last Updated at 15:34 IST
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On Wednesday this week, a tribal man in Odissa started walking from a hospital, where his wife had died, towards their village 60-odd kilometres away, carrying her corpse on his shoulder. This wasn’t their tribal custom. It wasn’t a protest. He wasn’t making a point. He simply had no other way of bringing the body home. He didn’t have the wherewithal to negotiate the bureaucracy and fees necessary to avail of an ambulance, and the hospital said it couldn’t help him, so he just wrapped his wife’s body in a cloth and started walking home with his teenaged ...
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