Social Media and Grieving; India Beef Ban; World Hijab Day

Are social media changing the way we mourn and grieve? As Lucky Severson reports, millions now turn to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube to participate digitally in group grieving—especially in the aftermath of events such as recent terrorist attacks, gun violence, and natural disasters; to console and comfort, share sympathies, and memorialize death.

Two young women, one Buddhist and one Muslim, help to foster religious tolerance and greater understanding by supporting an annual event on February 1 when non-Muslim women are invited to “experience the hijab” for one day.

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro travels to Delhi to report on recent spasms of religious violence triggered by a controversy over the consumption of beef by Muslims and the sacredness of the cow to Hindus.

Watch two more women, one a Muslim and one a non-Muslim, participate in World Hijab Day, and see what their experiences are like. Say Muslim Yasmine Ison: “Wearing the hijab [gives] me this whole other freedom that I never had. I started to notice this control I had of myself.”