Published on : 10 Nov 2025, 2:06 am

The recent last rites of Zarine Khan (nee Katrak), the wife of Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan, generated a lot of controversy among netizens. Pictures showing her son, Zayed, performing what looked like Hindu funerary rituals created confusion given that Zarine was married to a Muslim.

A day following the funeral, Zarine’s daughter Farah cleared the air. “Born a Parsi, married as a Muslim, and cremated according to Hindu rites — she epitomised humanity. She was the bond that held our family together, and her legacy is something we hope to live by,” she wrote in tribute to her mother.

Social media discourse also pointed out that while Parsi funerary customs are different, involving excarnation and sky burial, the environmental catastrophe that took pl

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