Fire and smokes

After electric crematoriums were installed at Pashupati Ghat, the income of cremators like Jiban was gravely affected.

Jiban got up early in the morning and reached Pashupati Ghat. He took a bath there, performed a puja, and was ready for his job as a cremator. The morning was quite inauspicious. It was already 7 am, and the entire Pashupati area was engulfed by thick fog. And there was no possibility of sunshine anytime soon.