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...wrapped in white cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, through the streets of the poisoned city to the nearby Chhola Vishram cremation site. There, four, five, six bodies were thrown onto a pyre that usually served only one. Rows upon rows of pyres burned through the night. -By Pico Iyer...
...Pico Iyer. Reported by Tala Skari/Paris and William Stewart/Washington
...priests under bright umbrellas chant ageless prayers, the tiny bodies are placed in a long trench. And each dusk in Bati, when the sun burns red and fierce, four men carry bodies from the house of the dead up a steep hill to their common grave. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by James Wilde/Bati, with other bureaus
...Sikh homelessness to add to the burning fuse of Sikh restlessness. After all the tributes paid to Indira Gandhi, the finest, he knew, would be a resolution to the Sikh problem that had ended his mother's life, and that, if unresolved, could end many more. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Brelis and James Willwerth/New Delhi
...Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi and James Shepherd/London