Ah, that makes sense! I guess the rituals have imbibed some Christian elements over time?
And anyway, I'm not really fond of most Hindu rituals to begin with, so I actually cheered when Thirteen was one of the pallbearers (women are never pallbearers; traditionally, they did not even have the right to participate in the funeral or even visit the bloody cremation ground, although that has changed in many sections of the society now).
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Date: 2009-04-08 06:11 am (UTC)And anyway, I'm not really fond of most Hindu rituals to begin with, so I actually cheered when Thirteen was one of the pallbearers (women are never pallbearers; traditionally, they did not even have the right to participate in the funeral or even visit the bloody cremation ground, although that has changed in many sections of the society now).