INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KENDRAPARA: In this Odisha town, death is not the great leveller
recently, the Dalit Samaj dispatched a letter on Monday to the government
urged the administration to allow all Hindu people, irrespective of caste, to cremate bodies in this crematorium
But here the civic body barred them from cremating bodies of non-Brahmins
government for allocating a separate cremation ground for Dalits in a village
The court said providing a separate crematorium for Dalits meant encouraging caste inequality, Gochayat added.However, Basant Panda, a local
People of other castes cremate bodies at another cremation ground nearby
