The Weight of Waiting: Nepal's Flood Victims and the Symbolic Cremation of Hope The devastating floods in Nuwakot and Rasuwa, Nepal have left thousands without homes, livelihoods, or even bodies to mourn.
In a desperate attempt to find closure, families are turning to symbolic cremations as their hopes for finding missing loved ones begin to fade.
Relatives are using kusha effigies – human shaped bundles of sacred grass – to represent the absent.