Greener Last Rites: Saving Trees, Honouring Tradition-Karan Bir Singh Sidhu, IAS (Retd.)
[caption id="attachment_15401" align="alignleft" width="700"] Ai-generated representational image.[/caption] A vast majority of Indians bid farewell to their loved ones through cremation. The open-pyre, still the dominant method, consumes vast quantities of firewood—often the equivalent of one…