Second wave of pandemic has put a strain on burials and crematoriums across the country

Sewri Christian Cemetery, the largest in Mumbai, recorded 13 burials in a single day on April 10, and eight of the bodies buried were Covid-19 patients. "In the last 40 years this is the single largest day burials, " says Jocelyn Pereira, the manager at Sewri Cemetery. On the same day in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, 22 bodies were cremated at the same time on wooden pyres at the crematorium in the city, and as the wood for the funeral pyre was