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India is huge and varied. If you saw corpe on a river does not mean its followed everywhere. The bodies are cremated and the ashes are floated on rivers. Outsid
by ocean3 11y ago
India is huge and varied. If you saw corpe on a river does not mean its followed everywhere. The bodies are cremated and the ashes are floated on rivers. Outside the cities/towns people might still be fetching water from wells. But the ground water level has depleted as well.
- cholantesh 11y agoProper cremation can be expensive, so poor persons often take part in an ad hoc ceremony in which they may not properly burn the body before sending it down the river. This is in addition to infanticide and other unsavory reasons for disposing of bodies...
- ocean3 11y agoPeople don't dump bodies in rivers where in live. As i said India is huge. The cultural practices vary from region to region.
- pigpaws 11y agounderstood, however if someone upstream poisons their water supply, be it farm/agriculture, industrial runoff, etc.. it still effects you and your family downstream. If there is too much, everything starts to deteriorate.
- ocean3 11y agoSure. People living there would be affected. But i don't know common those practices are. Might be just North India. I am from South. There are many difference between North and South states and within Southern states and districts.
- cholantesh 11y agoNot where I'm from either (Chennai, though my dad is from Thanjavur), but in the area around the Gangetic plain, this might be a common practice, and it is deleterious to humans and the environment.