OMG, that is awful. It makes it very hard to love India but I do. I don’t know, but I expect that it costs a certain amount of rupees to have the Brahmins that run the cremation services along the banks (same family for like a thousand years) dispose of the body. If you do not have the rupees to have a proper cremation, the next best thing is to be buried in the waters of the Holy Ganga. But it’s sick - imagine if you could stop all that and make the Ganges sweet and clean...
I’ve seen some pretty awful stuff, but that hellhole is the worst yet, by far.