Mitali Saran: House of horrors

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On Wednesday this week, a tribal man in Odisha started walking from a hospital, where his wife had died, towards their village 60-odd km away, carrying her corpse on his shoulders. 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 with the bureaucracy the fee necessary to avail of an ambulance, and the hospital said it couldn't help him, so he just wrapped his wife's body in cloth and started walking home with his teenaged daughter by his ...

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Mitali Saran: House of horrors