It was a case that made headlines globally and led to widespread condemnation. A teenaged widow was burned on her husband's funeral pyre under the Hindu practice of sati 37 years ago. Now Roop ...

Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband’s funeral pyre. By signing up, you confirm that you ...

A little more than 37 years after the 18-year-old Roop Kanwar burned to death on the pyre of her husband, the last eight accused in a case of glorifying the act the following year, to deify the victim ...