After their two brothers failed to show up for their mother’s funeral in Odisha, four women carried her 4 kilometres to the crematorium on their shoulders.
The incident occurred in Puri’s Mangalaghat neighbourhood. According to sources, Jati Nayak, an octogenarian from the area, died on Sunday. Jati was the mother of two sons and four daughters. Her sons and their families live separately from her daughters, who are married off.
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Her two boys were informed of their mother’s death by neighbours, but neither of them showed up to fulfil their parental responsibilities. Jati’s four children then took it upon themselves to cremate their mother, breaking stereotypes and cultural boundaries in the process.
The daughters built a pyre and took their mother’s body 4 kilometres to the cremation ground (Swarga dwar) to complete the final rituals with the help of some neighbours.
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“For the last ten years, our brothers had been neglecting our mother. She was never allowed to live with them. They never once asked her if she was okay, let alone looked after her food, over those years. She had been ill before her death, and we had to transport her to the hospital in an ambulance. Our brothers, too, had chosen to be unconcerned,” Sitamani Sahu, one of the daughters, said.
According to reports, after her husband died, Nayak was forced to support her family as a street seller. The daughters alleged that their brothers were “torturing” Nayak instead of taking care of him.
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The case is yet another example of how, in the so-called modern society of the twenty-first century, humanity is rapidly fading and filial obligations are losing their fundamental significance.
