Death in the Time of the Coronavirus: A Day Spent in Delhi s Crematoria
A reporter s account of crematoria in the national capital.
Pyres at the Green Park crematorium. Photo: Indra Shekhar Singh
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A little sun and some rain made it an unusual May day. A cleaner Yamuna swelled with water and perhaps lost souls. But on her banks, the Sarai Kale Khan crematorium, with over 100 cremation pits, lay quite empty. It was 3 pm and only six bodies were burning. The wind blew east, but suddenly swerved towards a small reddish bench, making all its occupants â Bagh Narayan, 79-year-old living atlas, and the crematoriumâs sweeper, Ram Lal, a cremation worker and I â savour earthly scents of