Kanpur: Generally, when someone dies in Hindu religion, his dead body is taken to the crematorium and burnt. Here, amidst the utter silence, the only sound is the crying of the family members of the deceased. Overall the atmosphere is a bit scary. So can one sleep next to a dead body or a pyre at such a place? Recently a similar video has surfaced and the reason behind it is heart-wrenching.
Actually, in this, an elderly man is sleeping lying next to the burning pyre in the cremation ground. The scene is of late night and apart from him, not a single person is visible in the entire ghat. This in itself is surprising, because generally people are afraid of even going to the crematorium, so how can a person sleep peacefully next to a burning dead body?
कानपुर में ठंड बहुत पड़ रही है। एक गरीब और बेघर बुजुर्ग ठंड से बचने के लिए भैरव घर (शमशान) में लेट गए…।
— Dilip Singh (@dileepsinghlive) December 30, 2023
ये बुजुर्ग की बेबसी और लाचारी ही है, कि उन्हें अपनी जान बचाने के लिए जल रही लाशों के बीच लेटना पड़ा…।#kanpur #winter pic.twitter.com/a9iZgsri0r
According to the information, this video is of Bhairav Ghat of Kohna police station area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Like many areas of the country, it is extremely cold here at this time. In such a situation, the old man has a thin blanket and has no other way to save himself from the cold except taking the help of the burning dead body. He is satisfying himself with the heat of the burning pyre. Let us tell you that the minimum temperature in Kanpur remains 8 to 9 degrees.
When people standing nearby made a video of the old man and asked him why he was lying here, the old man said that he had come and lay down here because he was feeling cold. These words of the old man were heart-wrenching. Although the administration is working daily to distribute blankets to such poor people, still there are thousands of people who are deprived of these facilities and are facing difficulties in the cold.
