Amish Tripathi Podcast Row: Can we focus women when talking about Sati?

Unfortunately, it is still too common to evaluate violence, life and death in terms other than the flesh and blood of the humans involved.

In a similar line, the rights of minorities are often discussed as if they are more properly and, therefore, subordinated to the life of the majority.

For all those who extol a woman’s autoimmaking for the death of her husband, one wishes to ask if they can imagine helping their own mother or sister a funeral pyre. There will certainly be those who will insist that they can.

But for the rest, perhaps such exercise could serve to redirect the approach to abstract descriptions in sati or tradition, intact by the fire of death, women throughout their vibrant vibration.

(Clay Mani is a historian, cultural critic and author of books as contentious traditions: the debate on sati in colonial India (1998) and sacred secular: contemplative cultural critic (2009). This is a piece of opinion. The opinions expressed above They are the author’s own. The Quint neither support nor is it responsible for them).