Chhattisgarh: No grave to lay my head | John Dayal

January 21, 2025

Indian citizens, regardless of their religion, have freedom of dignity in life, and in death, assurances that are seldom kept

In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, villagers, local authorities and even the state’s High Court have denied a Christian man the right to bury his father’s body in the village graveyard.

There is no peace of the graveyard yet for Subhash Bhaghel who died on Jan. 7 in Chindhwara district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

In a morbid coincidence entirely lost on India