CREMATORIUM workers toiled day and night in Delhi’s sweltering heat to provide a semblance of dignity to the dead in the horrific month of April, when the novel coronavirus infection raged. As a long line-up of bodies and their weeping relatives waited at crematoriums, it was the workers who stepped in to perform the last rites of passage.
Nobody gave them a second glance. But their back-breaking work took a toll on them. “They looked overworked, malnourished and tired,” recounts Nandini Ghosh, when she first went to Nigambodh Ghat, a crematorium in central Delhi. . .