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Gadag’s lost graveyard

"The tombstones themselves have apparently been missing for over 15 years, and the spot is now where people defecate freely… I even rummaged through some nearby rubble, hoping to find some bits of tombstone… Nothing… Dreadful,” stated photographer-cinematographer Hemant Chaturvedi of the deserted Parsi graveyard in Gadag in Karnataka. He was on a trip to the southern states when he located the aramgah about 400 km northwest of Bangalore and 160 km southeast of Belgaum. "Sadly, the land with the graveyard has been under dispute for some years, and they have chosen to be disrespectful and destroy the graves,”  he......



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