About the Book

The Final Farewell: Understanding The Last Rites and Rituals of India’s Major Faiths offers a comprehensive and sensitive exploration of death rituals and the cultural significance of dying in India. This groundbreaking work examines the intricate tapestry of funerary customs across India’s major faiths, providing readers with deep insights into how different communities approach death, mourning, and remembrance.

Award Recognition

🏆 Shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS) Book Award

This prestigious recognition honors outstanding and original contributions in the field of death studies. Learn more about the award

What Readers Are Saying

The book has received widespread acclaim from major publications including The Telegraph, Outlook India, Frontline, Business Standard, and academic journals like Death Studies. Critics have praised it as “a moving and necessary book” that offers “a humane approach to death” while “forcing us to think of death and last rites” in new and meaningful ways.

Media Highlights

The Final Farewell has been featured in numerous prestigious outlets including:

• Book Excerpts: Scroll, The Print, She The People
• Opinion Pieces: Deccan Herald, The Telegraph, The Indian Express
• Best of 2024 Lists: Talk Death, The Telegraph’s Page Turners
• Academic Reviews: Death Studies Journal, Doing Sociology

Book Events

• Book Signing Event (January 2024)
• World Book Fair (February 2024)
• World Book Fair (2024 and 2025)