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Rites of passage

This is a book that deserves to be read widely for the lessons that death can teach the living

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Chintan Girish Modi
The Final Farewell
Author: Minakshi Dewan
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Price: Rs 499   
Pages: 312

It is intriguing to witness how bereavement evokes in some people a grief so debilitating that they want to shut themselves off from the world for as long as they can, while the same experience of loss leads others to connect with fellow humans and understand how they make sense of death, the social and psychological significance of rituals, beliefs about the afterlife, and the logistics involved in honouring the deceased while taking care of paperwork.

Minakshi Dewan, who completed her masters in social work from the Tata