User:Vaikuntam

India Beats - Taking of the Dead - Easing the passage.

A mother and her daughter making a living - taking care of the dead. in a male dominated profession.

The lined face, bleary eyes and double chin could be any 70 -year-olds, But each wrinkle on her mother's face tells a story. Of a monther's breaking heart when she saw her son being taken away for cremation, a pregnant girl who breathed her last days before she was to deliver, of a young mother being paid on the funeral pyre as her husband and son fought for their lives in ICU of a hospital. This is simply because *she is the only woman in a male dominated profession in the South. She tends to the dead. An unsuitable job for a woman but as she * says, "Poverty pushed me in to it"

Tough beginning :

Her entry into a hitherto male bastion created ripples.People refused to talk to her and ostracised her. "But my focus was on providing for my child.says mother*