BANIYANI, INDIA — It’s an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take ...

The myth of Sati and Siva is one that lurks on the margins of our imaginations in this century, primarily because somewhere in the past, it became the support story for sati, the practice by which a ...

But even though sati may be simply falling out fashion, but women's activists and legal experts are worried it may be revived for commercial reasons. Last week, 60-year-old Sharbati Bai attempted to ...

Though motivation and glorification of sati is a crime under the Commision for Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, dozens of small and big temples flourish unchecked in Bundelkhand, UP, and across Rajasthan, ...

A gathering of around 500 people glorifying and propagating Sati was busted in suburban Vile Parle by cops on Saturday evening. Sati, wherein women are encouraged to immolate themselves on their ...

Not too many people are aware of a small village that is rich in historical relics, called Bhabanipur. If you go a few kilometres south-west from Bogra, you will get to enjoy a historically ...