Kasaragod, June 28 -- A Muslim woman public representative became the "daughter" an abandoned Hindu man never had in his final moments, performing his last rites according to Hindu customs after his family refused to claim his body following his death from cancer in Kerala's Kasaragod district.
The heart-rending act of compassion by Irfana Iqbal, Chairperson of the Development Standing Committee of the Kasaragod District Panchayat, has touched people across Kerala, emerging as a powerful symbol of humanity rising above religious divides.
The deceased, 64-year-old Narayanan, a native of Chigrupadavu in Manjeswaram, had been found about a month ago in a frail and starving condition outside a roadside shop. After receiving information from a...