Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fifteen people who allegedly forced a woman to burn herself to death by sitting on her husband's funeral pyre in the central Indian ...

What’s the deal with suttee? For years I’ve been hearing that in India, widows are routinely thrown on funeral pyres alive. Is this just propaganda? And if not, is it just unpopular widows that it ...

The village in central India where more than 1,000 men and women stood and watched as a 65-year-old woman burned herself alive in a revival of the ancient Hindu practice of suttee, or widow sacrifice, ...