Word: pyre
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...Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN THREE NEGROES read the headlines of the village paper. ROPE BREAKS PRECIPITATING VICTIM INTO BURNING EMBERS OF PYRE. So much for idylls...
...lives. Now we are mourning our dead." As he spoke, silent processions of survivors carried the dead, 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...
...those who died, there was no solitude. The traditional Hindu rite of cremation is one body, one pyre. But there were too many dead, and not enough firewood. The only solution was to place the dead, wrapped in cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, as many as five or six corpses together, on one pyre. As a result, huge fires burned all night long, sending smoke and flames arching up the sky as if death had become a permanent part of the countryside...
...disorder pointed up as nothing else the daunting task faced by India's new Prime Minister, Indira's son Rajiv, 40, who determinedly assumed a burden for which scarcely three years of political apprenticeship had little prepared him. After ceremoniously igniting his mother's funeral pyre, Rajiv met with a score of foreign dignitaries who had attended the funeral, including U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Yamuna River, an area where Mahatma Gandhi as well as her father and her younger son Sanjay had also been cremated. A million Indians had lined the streets to see the procession, and millions more watched on television as her body was placed on a flower-covered pyre of sandalwood and brick, and set afire by her son Rajiv...