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Breaking with tradition, yet another daughter lights her father's funeral pyre
May 10, 2019 05:30 am
CHITWAN, May 10: Defying the age-old Hindu tradition which allows only sons to cremate their parents, a daughter in Baharatpur Metropolitan City has lit the funeral pyre of her father.
Daughters perform final rites of their mother
May 7, 2019 03:00 am
DHADING, May 7: Going against the Hindu tradition, which bars females from performing the final rites of their parents, two daughters in Dhading have lit the funeral pyre of their mother.
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