With the avalanche of bad news, we may have become accustomed, even hardened, to reports and nothing may shock us any longer. Yet, this is a report that should surely evince outrage, introspection and action from those responsible.

A man in Odisha’s Keonjhar district walked three kilometres under the scorching sun, carrying his dead sister’s skeletal remains on his shoulder to a bank in an attempt to retrieve R19,300 from her account, reports stated.