Guest guest Posted August 7, 2002 Report Share Posted August 7, 2002 >From Michael Witzel (everybody can check the news on the net): SATI IN PANNA, SHIELDED BY THE FAITHFUL & WITNESSED BY SONS by TAPAS CHAKRABORTY Aug. 6: Fifteen years after Roop Kanwar was forced to commit sati in Rajasthan's Deorala, Guttu Bai plunged into the leaping flames of her husband's pyre as an entire village in Madhya Pradesh erupted in celebration and her two sons stood as spectators. Moments into the incident, the village of timid onlookers in Panna district, about 300 km from Bhopal, worked up a frenzy, dancing, chanting hymns celebrating sati and virtually converting the faceless crematorium into a makeshift temple. After Mallu Nayya, 70, a backward class member of Patnatamoli village, died last night, his widow Guttu declared she would commit sati. A section of villagers from another caste informed Saleha police station, about 8 km away. Deputy superintendent of police S.H. Ghose reached the village with his team even as the pyre was being lit amid beating drums and kirtans. Ghose tried to stop Guttu as she lunged for the pyre after certain rituals. But a couple of hundred villagers helped her wriggle out. The policemen were treated to a shower of stones and brickbats, and Ghose fell unconscious. Guttu Bai's sons did nothing to save their mother. *******************************END********************************* eg ************************* Dr. Enrica Garzilli University of Macerata Editor-in-Chief, IJTS & JSAWS http://www.asiatica.org ************************* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2002 Report Share Posted August 8, 2002 Here is a different version of the same news-item - notice the differences, e.g., the team in Tapas Chakraborty's news-item is two policemen in the Hindu article; the village is now deserted, etc. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/08/07/stories/2002080704880100 ..htm `Sati' in M.P. village Bhopal Aug. 6. In an incident of `sati', a 65-year-old woman sat on the funeral pyre of her husband today and died of burns, at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Panna district. Police said Mallu Nai died at Tamoli Patna village after a prolonged illness. On coming to know that his wife, Kuttu Bai, intended to commit `sati', two policemen from Saleha rushed to the area but were stoned by the villagers. Kuttu Bai's two grown-up sons did not attempt to prevent her from sitting on the pyre. The village is now deserted and further information about the incident will be known only after the people return, police said adding that a group of senior officials had rushed to Tamoli Patna. — PTI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2002 Report Share Posted August 8, 2002 News-item in Hindi at : http://216.15.255.34/07082002/homenews.asp?home=6hhhc.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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