>>Mujib Mashal, Sameer Yasir and Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, The New York Times Published: 09 May 2021 11:03 AM BdST Updated: 09 May 2021 11:03 AM BdST Family members of COVID-19 victims perform a cremation ceremony in Delhi, India, May 6, 2021. At the cremation grounds, where the fires only briefly cool off late at night, relatives wait hours for their turn to say goodbye. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) The lifeless are picked up from infected homes by exhausted volunteers, piled into ambulances by hospital workers or carried in the back of auto-rickshaws by grieving relatives. "); } At the cremation grounds, where the fires only briefly cool off late at night, relatives wait hours for their turn to say goodbye. The scenes are photographed, filmed, broadcast. They are beamed to relatives under lockdown across India. They are shown on news sites and newspapers around the world, putting India’s personal tragedies on display to a global audience.