The family house in Bombay was near the burning ghats where the dead bodies were incinerated.
Friday 30th January 73% of corpses are now incinerated, compared to just 4% in 1946.
The Scotsman SIXTY years ago, the people of Hiroshima were incinerated by the world's first nuclear bomb.
The droppings are used as fuel, and from the incinerated remains of these sal-ammoniac is extracted, which was at one time largely exported from Egypt.
The proportion of waste incinerated with energy recovery has remained roughly constant at just under 9 per cent.
