b' About the Book: Funeral Nights\n\n A group of friends from Shillong journey to a remote part of West Khasi Hills\nto witness Ka Phor Sohrat, the feast of the dead, a unique six-day-long funeral\nceremony of the Lyngngams, a Khasi sub-tribe. It may well be the last time this\nancient rite is performed. The ceremony involving a number of rituals and the\nsacrifice of as many as fifty bullswill conclude with the cremation of a\nbeloved elder, a woman whose body has been preserved in a tree house for nine\nwhole months. \n\nBy mistake, however, the group ends up reaching the secluded hamlet of\nNongshyrkon seven '