For me, your death rituals also matter.

 

For me, your death rituals also matter. If your family members cremated you or if cremation is your ideology, then you are a black-skinned and white-masked or Janus-faced organic intellectual or scholar or theorist or writer or poet or leader or social or political reformer when you are alive. This is why I rejected not only Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Phule, but every Indian icon and their ostensibly social reformations, because every end is marked by an infamous Hindutva, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, or Parsi ritual. A true social reformer never followed that path of cremation but buried their dead. Burying is the most respectful way of respecting the dead, whereas cremation is humiliating to the dead, in which you can’t claim human status, human dignity, or human identity.

Wake up, Janus-faced intellectual

Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla, Why I Am Not Indian: The Untouch0able Rejecting India's Citizenship