Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Amid the exponential rise in number of Covid-19 casualties and a shortage of space to perform their final rites, 55-year-old Basa Jijia Bai has come forward to conduct the funeral of those who lost their battle with the scourge. She runs a graveyard at Kavadiguda in Secunderabad that her family inherited from her ancestors.
“With the rise in number of Covid-19 deaths and families struggling to find space to bury or cremate their loved ones, I have decided to perform the last rites of people who died of the infection. This is no less than a service to God,” she says. The graveyard land was given to her ancestors by the Nizams before Independence. She is also the first woman in her family to take up this job.