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Artist Jayasri Burman paints the ‘resilient’ Ganga
In May well 2021, when images of hundreds of corpses floating in the river Ganga went viral, like several many others, artist Jayasri Burman was appalled. “It was an eerie experience,” states the Delhi-dependent artist. She adds, “Since no one is meant to touch the bodies of Covid patients, people who experienced no possibility and with entry to the river, threw them there with the hope that the river will enable them get moksha. The river did inevitably wash out the bodies. She is brave. She is getting abused but she is not expecting sympathy, she has the power to search just after alone.” It is this resolve and resilience…