RE: Spiritual Life at the Ganga River 🇮🇳 Hindu Ascetics in Varanasi

Cremation in public

The cleanest part of India - bodies are fully covered with fabric, like being in a cocoon, and then burned. It can become an issue if many bodies would stay waiting its time for cremation. For some reason, that doesn't happen. Obviously, it's very expensive to be cremated like that, although it looks quite "basic" - a pile of wood, fire by the river. They have electrical crematoriums in Varanasi - cheaper, as I told - most people are cremated there, as I know.