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Deepak Patel

27 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read

The scale of our tragedy:

6 out of 16 pages of Sandesh newspaper’s Rajkot edition today contain just obituaries.

These 6 pages have 232 obituaries — 129 with photos & 103 text-only

Two months back, the paper had 56 obituaries.

56 to 232.

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Remaining 2 pages with obituaries in today’s edition:

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These people mentioned in obituaries today were once walking among us.

Their loved ones will never forget them.

It is unclear how our govt will remember them.

(Note: Guj govt says only 40 people died of Covid in Rajkot during last 3 days.)

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Also, please note that the 232 obituaries today are in one edition of one Gujarati paper.

I don’t know how many obituaries are there in Rajkot’s other newspapers.

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Deepak Patel

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25 Apr

*The enormity & invisibility of our tragedy*

4 out of 16 pages of Kutchmitra newspaper's Bhuj edition yesterday contained obituaries.

There were total 117 obituaries: 93 text-only and 24 with photos.

But Gujarat govt says no one has died of Covid in Kutch in last 3 days.

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Guj govt says zero persons have died due to Covid in Kutch between Thursday & Saturday. (see attached pics)

Kutch, the westernmost district of India, has a population of around 21 lakhs (as per 2011 census).

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Also, Kutchmitra's Editor Deepak Mankad yesterday questioned Guj govt's statistics.

In his editorial, he said when relatives these days are asked the cause of death of the deceased - whose obituary has to be published - most of them reply with one answer only: Corona.

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Deepak Patel

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24 Apr

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**The scale of our tragedy**

6 out of 17 pages of Gujarat Samachar’s Rajkot edition today contain obituaries.

The newspaper contains total 267 obituaries -- 124 with photos in 5 pages and 143 text-only in a single page.

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Two remaining pages of today’s edition:

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2 months back, on Feb 26, Gujarat Samachar’s Rajkot edition had just 1 out of 17 pages for obituaries.

There were 43 obituaries — 24 with photos and 19 text-only — on that single page.

The difference is huge — 267 today vs 43 on Feb 26.

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Deepak Patel

@deepakpatel_91

23 Apr

The scale of our tragedy:

8 out of 20 pages in Sandesh newspaper’s Rajkot edition contain obituaries today.

There are 152 obituaries with photos of the deceased.

There are 133 text-only obituaries in a single page.

Total 285. (1/9)

Remaining 4 pages:

These people have become just a statistic for govt. However, each of them deserved to live like you & me.

Since 40% of the newspaper is filled with obituaries, we can safely say most of them died due to COVID-19.

As a small tribute, I roughly translate 6 of the 285 obituaries:

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