Roman Catholics in a quaint Telangana village have, for over 50 years, defied the notion of death as the final act of isolation by interring generations of family members in shared graves. TOI walks through this cemetery filled with tombstones that bear stories of lives that don’t end with death
What if life’s final chapter weren’t a lonely exit, but an entombed embrace of collective memories and kinship?
In Mariyapuram village of Telangana’s Warangal district, about 170km from Hyderabad, a small community of Roman Catholics challenges the notion that we die alone.
Here, beneath a single tombstone, six, seven, or even a dozen members of the community rest together. The symbolism of a shared final resting place is meant to transform death from an event signifying permanent isolation into one of eternal union.
In Mariyapuram village of Telangana’s Warangal district, about 170km from Hyderabad, a small community of Roman Catholics challenges the notion that we die alone.
Here, beneath a single tombstone, six, seven, or even a dozen members of the community rest together. The symbolism of a shared final resting place is meant to transform death from an event signifying permanent isolation into one of eternal union.