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Mother was in pain, tried to help, was late: children battle grief, loneliness

Across Jharkhand, children orphaned by Covid carry on quietly — the state still working out how to support them.

Across Jharkhand, children orphaned by Covid carry on quietly — the state still working out how to support them.

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A reporter’s notebook from districts where Covid-19 emptied homes of parents and primary earners. The grief is visible only in passing — a child folding a school uniform, a grandmother counting medicines — but the social, economic and educational consequences are likely to last for years. The piece tracks how the state government is structuring relief, and where the gaps remain.

Mother was in pain, tried to help, was late: children battle grief, loneliness