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A doctor in south India has dissected his own father's dead body.

Dr Mahantesh Ramannavar says his father donated his body for medical research and made it clear in his will that he wanted the dissection to be carried out by his own son.

Dr Ramannavar's father was a renowned practitioner of traditional medicine, known as Ayurveda.

He died two years ago and his embalmed body has since been used for lessons in anatomy at the hospital where his son works.

Outlook reporter Suhail Haleem spoke with Dr Ramannavar in his native city of Belgaum in the South of India and asked him how he felt when his father's corpse was on the slab and how he hopes this act will encourage other people to donate their bodies for medical research.