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| | Aint No Way to Go: Burning Brides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | All over India, where Hindu wives traditionally burned on their husbands' funeral pyres, brides in recent years have been dying in their husbands' homes in fires that were called "accidents" until women's organizations began to demand an official accounting. |
 | | She was 25 years old, and she died so suddenly and silently that her sleeping children, one a baby 3 moths old, did not awake. |
 | | In a recent book, "Brides Are Not for Burning," the author, Ranjana Kumar, documented cases of official delays, legal maneuvers and tampered evidence. |
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