A decade ago, a young French researcher and an 8-year-old Indian boy met. Their friendship has guided both their lives.

‘Today, I am the same age as you on the day you died. And absence is the distance between you and me.’

Dr Prabha Kangle died from COVID a year ago. But her memory lives on with her achievements and carefully tended plants.

Indians in the diaspora ‘are hit by currents of grief and guilt as we watch from afar the second wave of COVID-19’.

Immigrants bear the burden of having to prove, again and again, that they are worthy of their spot.

Overnight loss of income from core clientele plunges the marginalised group into depths of anxiety and deprivation.