Roop Kanwar was 18 when she committed Sati way back in 1987. Whether she did it of her own will or was coerced into it is open to debate, but days before the 34th anniversary of her act that is now the stuff of folklore in Rajasthan’s Deorala village, a 70-year-old man in a remote tribal-dominated Kalahandi village ended his life by jumping on to the funeral pyre of his wife.
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