The scale of our tragedy:
8 out of 16 pages in Saurashtra Bhaskar’s Bhavnagar edition today contain just obituaries.
It has 238 obituaries — 162 text-only & 76 with photos of the deceased.
It had 28 obituaries two months back, on March 6.
28 to 238.
(1/4)
8 out of 16 pages in Saurashtra Bhaskar’s Bhavnagar edition today contain just obituaries.
It has 238 obituaries — 162 text-only & 76 with photos of the deceased.
It had 28 obituaries two months back, on March 6.
28 to 238.
(1/4)
Remaining 4 pages from today’s newspaper that contain obituaries:
(2/4)
(2/4)
Please note:
1. Gujarat govt’s data shows only 53 people died of Covid yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Bhavnagar.
2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.
(3/4)
1. Gujarat govt’s data shows only 53 people died of Covid yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Bhavnagar.
2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.
(3/4)
3. The aforementioned number (238) is from Bhavnagar edition of just one of the Gujarati newspapers.
4. People are not just a statistic.
(4/4)
4. People are not just a statistic.
(4/4)
*The name of the newspaper is Saurashtra Samachar, and it is part of Divya Bhaskar group.
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