Widows With Children Struggling To Find Permanent Source Of Income
The Morning Standard|February 23, 2021
FOR the last year, Naazish has been hiding the harshest fact from her youngest son, that his father will never come back.
Somrita Ghosh
Widows With Children Struggling To Find Permanent Source Of Income

“The youngest one, 4, doesn’t know that his father is dead. Almost every day he asks me when will his father return. I don’t dare to tell him that his father will never come back,” said sobbing 25-year-old Naazish, a mother of four.

Naazish, a resident of Loni in northeast Delhi, had lost her husband, Jamaluddin, last year in the communal riots. She now weaves cots for their livelihoods.

However, Naazish is among those who have received monetary compensation of ₹10 lakh from the Delhi government which she wants to utilise by purchasing a plot and putting that on rent for a source of income.

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