The lifeless are picked up from infected homes by exhausted volunteers, piled into ambulances by hospital workers or carried in the back of auto-rickshaws by grieving relatives.
At the cremation grounds, where the fires only briefly cool off late at night, relatives wait hours for their turn to say goodbye.
The scenes are photographed, filmed, broadcast. They are beamed to relatives across India. They are shown on news sites and newspapers around the world.
Local residents record the fires from their roofs to show the world why they must wear masks even inside their homes. The smoke and smell of death is so constant, so thick, that it covers the narrow lanes for much of the day, seeping through shuttered windows.
Mujib Mashal, Sameer Yasir and Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, The New York Times
Published: 09 May 2021 11:03 AM BdST
Updated: 09 May 2021 11:03 AM BdST Family members of COVID-19 victims perform a cremation ceremony in Delhi, India, May 6, 2021. At the cremation grounds, where the fires only briefly cool off late at night, relatives wait hours for their turn to say goodbye. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
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At the cremation grounds, where the fires only briefly cool off late at night, relatives wait hours for their turn to say goodbye. The scenes are photographed, filmed, broadcast. They are beamed to relatives under lockdown across India. They are shown on news sites and newspapers around the world, putting India’s personal tragedies on display to a global audience.
At Indiaâs Funeral Pyres, Covid Sunders the Rites of Grief
Relatives performed last rites at the Seemapuri cremation grounds in New Delhi on Thursday.Credit.
May 8, 2021Updated 5:44 a.m. ET
Mourners in protective gear, or watching from home. Long waits at the cremation grounds. The trauma of loss has become both lonely and public.
NEW DELHI â The lifeless are picked up from infected homes by exhausted volunteers, piled into ambulances by hospital workers or carried in the back of auto-rickshaws by grieving relatives.
At the cremation grounds, where the fires only briefly cool off late at night, relatives wait hours for their turn to say goodbye. The scenes are photographed, filmed, broadcast. They are beamed to relatives under lockdown across India. They are shown on news sites and newspapers around the world, putting Indiaâs personal tragedies on display to a global audience.