For the first time, women in Nawada village of Bihar have broken an age old tradition.
Daughters and not sons are carrying out the last rites of the dead to bring about complete gender equality and what is truly new is that the men of the village openly support this initiative.
Breaking from tradition
Sharmila Devi and Meena Devi carried their deceased father's body to the cremation ground though the bereaved family has three sons.
Equality proven in a different way
