Thane cremation ground crisis: Funeral held in open field in tribal hamlet Umbharai – Maharashtra News
Heavy rain poured over an open field as villagers struggled to give a dignified farewell to a woman who had spent her life in a tribal settlement in Maharashtra’s Thane district that, even 79 years after Independence, does not have a proper cremation ground. When Jayabai Wagh, a gram panchayat committee member, died, her final…