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How they grieved
Updated On: 27 February, 2022 08:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
A just-released docu series looks at the challenges faced by women who lost their husbands to COVID-19, and how they chalked out a new identity for themselves
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Susan’s husband Shashi died in New Delhi’s second Covid-19 wave in May 2021
Right at the beginning of a just released short documentary, we are taken inside a home in the village hamlet of Tandalyachiwadi in the Beed district of Maharashtra. A woman and a young girl are seen seated in a dimly-lit room, against a shelf filled with old utensils, looking away from the camera. “When I ask her to study she says, ‘dad was going to help me finish school? Who will educate me now?’ And then she cries,” says the older woman in Marathi, while talking about her daughter Sona, who sits beside her. The absence of her husband looms over her life and home, but Rajubai’s grieving is restrained. “Don’t cry,” she tells Sona, while fighting back her own tears.
Rajubai is one of the many widows, whose lives came undone due to Covid. Her story finds its way in a new three-part series Covid’s Widows, created by Cutting Chai Content, as part of its Crisis, India’s Reckoning project, which captures how this virus is affecting and changing lives.
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