Daughter breaks tradition, carries mother's bier

Varanasi | Tuesday | 24th July, 2018

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They were joined by other women villagers.Mother of two sons and a daughter, Santara lost her husband 20 years back. VARANASI: Breaking the social barriers and tradition to fulfill the last wish of 95-year-old Santara Patel, an agrarian family of Bariyasanpur village, her daughter and daughters-in-law lifted her bier to village outskirts. She also asked Pushpavati and her daughters-in-law to lift her bier on their shoulders up to village outskirts," said Tribhuvan. Pushpavati said that for her mother her sons and daughter were equal. "After sensing that her end was close, she called me, my sister Pushpavati Patel and other family members and asked us to donate her eyes after the death..