Hindu Cremations At Mumbai's Muslim Qabristan

Mumbai’s Bada Qabristan is helping both Hindus and Muslims perform last rites for people killed by the coronavirus.

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00:28If we talk about the present, then people of the family come to the hospital,

00:32come to the cemeteries, but if we talk about a month ago,

00:37there was so much fear and so much trouble on their faces,

00:43that if the son has died, then the father used to say,

00:46take some money and do his last rites, or bury him in the graveyard.

00:50In this way, the children were afraid of the death of the father or the mother.

00:55Every person was afraid that if they touch him, he will expire after two days.

01:01This was a very scary environment, in which our team worked very hard.

01:05After that, the way the hospital understood that the team of the big cemetery

01:09is continuously contributing to this kind of work,

01:12so the people of the hospital also started contacting us directly,

01:16the people of the police also started contacting us directly.

01:19So many bodies were such that we had unknown numbers,

01:24but there was no one to contact us.

01:26So our team used to go there and try to talk on those numbers.

01:30Sometimes it happened that they did not pick up the phone.

01:34When we reached their house, we found out that they were in quarantine.

01:38We found out that they had gone somewhere out of fear.

01:40So we have also claimed such bodies and done burial and last rites.

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