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Indians Gather as Former Premier Vajpayee Is Cremated

Thousands of Indians gathered Friday as the funeral pyre was lit for former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who was respected across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the mourners who walked under a hot sun behind a flower-decked gun carriage carrying Vajpayee's body to a cremation ground on the banks of the Yamuna river. Vajpayee, both a poet and a politician, died Thursday at age 93 in a New Delhi hospital. His foster...


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