COVID widows

Radha Devi buys vegetables on her way back from the private educational institute where she has worked as an aide since November 2021. Devi, her husband and their three children all came down with COVID-19 in April of that year. She and the kids recovered

Health & Safety

PHOTOS: The precarious lives of India's COVID widows

2:46pm March 11, 2022

by Text and photos by Ruhani Kaur

No matter how the pandemic proceeds, women who lost a husband — and sole family breadwinner — will lead irrevocably altered lives in the patriarchal society that is India.