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The Hostel of Death, Varanasi
On google there is one place that wont pop up in your search results. Its Mukti Bhavan, the guest house for the dying. Varanasi is the city where people come to die in order to attain Moksha or Salvation. Places like Mukti Bhavan (established in 1908) were set up to accommodate the dying and to assist the families in their rituals for the death preparations.
There are 10 rooms where the dying family checks in and stays for weeks, once the person passes away they check out. Soon to be occupied by a new family.
Here we see a person, paralyzed, in his last stages. And his daughter in laws reading Ramayana, an Indian holy text. I came to varanasi on an assignment to explore life and death.

The last Shramik train, following the final call out for the migrant workers left Bangalore on Monday morning.
Around 1500 migrants assembled at the Bengaluru's Palace Ground to travel to their homeland. There was no social distancing maintained throughout the boarding of the train, and few didn't wear the mask.
"There wasn't a single police professional till we volunteers gave a call", says the source.
"Nothing is systematic here since the last few days. The police force is probably not assigned. Only when the situation is unmanageable they turn up," she added.
The Indian Railways started 'Shramik' special trains from May 1st to bring migrants back to their home. About 58,00,000 migrants have travelled to their home towns.