India’s ‘COVID widows’ suffer loss upon loss
Thousands of women in India who have lost their husbands to COVID-19 are finding out that spousal death only marks...
Varsha Torgalkar is an independent journalist based in Pune, India. She covers rural economy, public health, child rights, gender, climate change, and travel for Indian and international news websites, including the South China Morning Post, The Third Pole, StoriesAsia, The Wire, Mongabay India, NewsClick, and Firstpost. She is the recipient of the Best Article on Humanitarian Crisis award conferred by the Press Institute of India and International Committee of Red Cross for 2020.
Thousands of women in India who have lost their husbands to COVID-19 are finding out that spousal death only marks...
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