Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family members watch a funeral pyre at a crematorium in Jammu, India, on April 26, 2021, after performing last rites for a ...

Tears rolling down his face, Bachchan Singh Bahadur poured cups of melted butter on the wood fire of his father's funeral pyre on the outskirts of New Delhi. He was in keeping with a centuries-old ...

The ceaselessly burning pyre at Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi is a living spectacle, where death asserts itself as the last witness to life. That cremation along the banks of the sacred Ganges on the ...

Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace. Smouldering ...

VARANASI, India — Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace ...