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News Articles: COVID widows

<em>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; her husband died. Says Devi: "I knew I had to stand up. I had to change myself for the kids, or they too would get left behind."</em>

PHOTOS: The precarious lives of India's COVID widows

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.

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  • Text and photos by Ruhani Kaur