A dignified burial for unclaimed bodies
The Hindu
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It began on a warm April day in 2003 when Zahid Ali Khan received a rather strange phone call.
“A police constable was on the line. He wanted to know if I can do something about an unclaimed body of a Muslim man that the police were in the process of cremating as per procedure. I decided to step in to help with the funeral,” says Mr. Khan, the editor of Siasat Urdu newspaper, sitting inside the Darul Shifa Masjid.
Outside, 11 biers brought from different mosques were covered with a white cloth. The 11 bodies would take the total number of bodies buried through the network of Siasat to 5,030 over a period of 18 years.
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