Pandemic networks honour the dead and heal the living
The Hindu
By letting people share their grief, these initiatives enable them to find healing as individuals as well as a community
Andrea Jacob, dancer-choreographer-movement therapist, is one of eight siblings, and with numbers on their side, the Jacobs would naturally enjoy the sense of having a huge gathering by just showing up together anywhere. “To be honest, all eight siblings have met together very few times. The two most significant occasions on which we did so were our parents’ funerals (in 2009 and 2011),” discloses Andrea, who lives with her husband and daughter and an extended family of animals, some named and others unnamed, at a seaside home on a section of East Coast Road, near Chennai. With the siblings seeking their fortune in different climes, the gathering of the Jacobs is a remote possibility — that is, if one entirely discounts the possibility of having technology-enabled “remote” meet-ups.More Related News