
District administration releases guidelines for funeral of COVID victims
The Hindu
The district administration has released guidelines for the funeral of those dying of COVID-19. If relatives are unwilling to take over the body, the secretary of the respective local body shall take
The district administration has released guidelines for the funeral of those dying of COVID-19. If relatives are unwilling to take over the body, the secretary of the respective local body shall take up the responsibility. Hospitals have been directed to inform the police, local body secretary, and relatives of COVID-19 deaths. In the case of local bodies without crematoriums of their own, they could use the facilities under other local bodies in the same block, which the block panchayat secretary should facilitate.
Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












