They Returned To India To Be Near Their Fathers, But Lost Them Both To COVID-19
After seven years in the U.S., a husband and wife returned to their native India to spend more time with their aging parents. But their time together was shorter than they'd hoped.
MUMBAI — Watching his young children gleefully celebrate Holi, the Indian festival of colors, with his father in March, Shalabh Pradhan thought: "This is exactly why we moved back to India."
Pradhan, 42, is a human resources manager who's lived and worked all over the world — Kansas, Minnesota, Kuwait. He lost his mother 12 years ago, and wanted to spend more time with his father, a retired defense scientist. So in 2018, Pradhan and his wife Richa Srivastava, 40, a fashion retail buyer, relocated from the U.S. back to their native India. They settled first in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru, and then moved north to be closer to their parents after the pandemic began.
"We came back, me and my wife, because [of] my dad and her
