A man tries to console a family member of a Covid-19 victim at a crematorium in New Delhi on Monday.
The 48-year-old volunteers in New Delhi with a Sikh association, one of many groups to spring up around the country and reach across religious traditions to help bereaved families bid farewell to their loved ones. Like Sharma, the volunteers from different faiths are willing to take on the emotional and physical toll of carrying out the final rites, driven by a sense of duty.
Behind him, smoke curled up from crackling funeral pyres and family members of victims stood silently in protective suits.
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