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AHMEDABAD, INDIA, November 25, 2004: Here’s another Indian ritual that’s moving online. Nonresident Gujaratis who can’t make it to the funeral of a loved one back home will soon be able to watch the last rites on the Net. To be built in Vadodara, the high-tech crematorium, called the Moksha Dham, will be funded by the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL), a Reliance group company. The other undertakers are the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) and the Rotary Club, which will operate the outfit initially. To be operational be June, 2005, the Moksha Dham will have equipment for the live webcast of cremations through a bandwidth connection provided by Reliance Infocomm. The relatives of the dead family member will also be able to send their condolence messages from their homes in the US, UK or Canada.

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