Alone, losing a companion and under lockdown far from home, she found comfort in how India cares for its animals. emilyschmall in New Delhi has the latest AP Virus Diary.
In this March 27, 2020, photo, Little Kitty, a 14-year-old American shorthair, curls up on a chair at home in New Delhi. Little Kitty lived in nine cities, in five countries on three continents.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked India’s 1.3 billion people, living under the world’s largest lockdown, to turn lights off and place earthen lamps — the Hindu symbol of good over evil — on window ledges and balconies in solidarity against coronavirus. Then, in April, she got very sick and died. My constant companion of 14 years was gone. The isolating constraints of a pandemic brought out the sharp contours of my solitude.
I reported about despair at a bus depot on the edge of Delhi, where hundreds of people waited to cross into the neighboring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, many with only a small bag of belongings. For weeks, the unemployed stood a meter apart in lines around city blocks for hot meals handed out at shuttered schools and temples.
The lockdown meant I could be home to nurse my cat, feeding her chicken broth through a syringe. My sadness was mixed with gratitude that I could care for her after so many years of companionship. Like many of India’s dead, animal and human, she would be cremated, because a fiery dissolution brings a swifter, more complete release of the soul.
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