Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?

Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis? by kamaal on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @01:04PM (#11390893)

Not all Hindus cremate their dead. In fact a small minority do. In South India, burials are what you will see in nearly all the cases.

Only a certain castes cremate. Everybody else buries and yes river burial too is not common.

Lets talk of reckless dumping of human waste, industrial waste into rivers and lakes.

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Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis? by srean on Thursday March 31, 2016 @05:58AM (#11396027)

As a non-religious athiest hindu this is the first time I am hearing this, could you give some pointers. I would have expected it to go the other way (if at all), that is, only a small minority of hindu's do not cremate their dead.

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Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis? by kamaal on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:42AM (#11397513)

In South India, we very rarely cremate.

Every village has a big "Rudrabhoomi". Cremation is a very upper caste thing.

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Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis? by pkaye on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:40PM (#11394636)

Do yo have any citations that only a small minority of Hindus cremate their dead?

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