Three daughters of 72-year-old Shiv Charan Gupta watched their father's cremation through a video call after they said they could not travel to Sonipat for his funeral. Gupta lived at an old age home in Haryana. Staff and volunteers at the home performed his last rites on August 3.

A story from Haryana's Sonipat has left many people emotional after an elderly man was cremated without a single member of his family by his side.

A video of the funeral has since gone viral, showing one of the daughters asking whether everything had gone smoothly. | India News