In last week's episode of Indian Summers, the bereaved American socialite is consoled by the suggestion that the urn containing her brother's ashes might be repatriated. I lived in India from 1934 to 1945 and briefly in 1951. Not once did I hear of a westerner being cremated. Most Hindus were cremated on a pyre and there were no crematoriums. I have revisited India over the years and, at least in the cities, the burning ghats have now been superseded by modern crematoriums.