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In the midst of deep grief, a scholar writes how Hindu rituals taught her to let go

  • Written by Ketika Garg, Ph.D. Student of Cognitive Science, University of California, Merced
imageHindu cremation being performed on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, India.Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images

Cultures have built elaborate rituals to help humans process the grief of losing someone.

Rituals can hold the core beliefs of a culture and provide a sense of control in an otherwise helpless situation. I came to understand this...

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