Delhi's crematoriums and graveyards have been stretched thin by the recent spike in Covid deaths. Many families failed to perform the last rites.
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00:00My mother's dead body is on fire. This is the reality.
00:04There is no wife or sister here.
00:21There is no wife or sister here.
00:26I have at least four people here.
00:29It's such a big family.
00:31But this COVID-19 situation is such that I can't call anyone here.
00:56My mother's dead body is on fire. This is the reality.
01:26My mother's dead body is on fire. This is the reality.
01:38People used to come, but they wouldn't let us touch them.
01:42Even if we wanted to wear a kit, they wouldn't let us touch them.
01:44With most of them, there are only one or two people.
01:47We have to put up with that.
01:56As the dead bodies are coming, I think the space we have been given will be less.