the-after-death-industry

Medak, Telangana

Aug 20, 2015

The after-death industry

Most of the households hit by suicides that were surveyed across six districts in Andhra Pradesh (in 2004) had forked out money for post-mortems

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Author

P. Sainath

P. Sainath is Founder Editor, People's Archive of Rural India. He has been a rural reporter for decades and is the author of 'Everybody Loves a Good Drought' and 'The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom'.