Sutapa Sikdar shares pic of Irrfan Khan's grave with Louise Gluck's lines on life & death

Irrfan Khan's wife Sutapa Sikdar took to her Instagram handle to share a picture of her husband's grave in Mumbai. Decorated in bed of roses, Sutapa celebrated both 'life and death' using American poet and Nobel Prize winner Louise Gluck's lines.

The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The prize was announced in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

Sutapa wrote, "Then they're in the cemetery, some of them
for the first time. They're frightened of crying,
sometimes of not crying. Someone leans over,
tells them what to do next, which might mean
saying a few words, sometimes
throwing dirt in the open grave." [sic]

A few days back, Shekhar Suman took to his Twitter handle and shared a picture of Irrfan Khan’s grave. The picture shared by Shekhar Suman was originally shared by Irrfan Khan’s son Babil Khan on his Instagram.

He further asked, does it teach anything about life? And explained that after all the fame and adulation, international acclaim, you lie alone in what he referred to as an ‘unkempt’ grave. Shekhar Suman in his tweet also urged the entertainment industry saying, “Can the industry wake up and at least get this place done in white marble wid a loving epitaph?”. 

Going by Sutapa's latest post, looks like changes have been made to Irrfan's grave and have been kept in much better condition than before.

 

 

 

 

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I'll tell you something: every day people are dying. And that's just the beginning. Every day, in funeral homes, new widows are born, new orphans. They sit with their hands folded, trying to decide about this new life. Then they're in the cemetery, some of them for the first time. They're frightened of crying, sometimes of not crying. Someone leans over, tells them what to do next, which might mean saying a few words, sometimes throwing dirt in the open grave. And after that, everyone goes back to the house, which is suddenly full of visitors. The widow sits on the couch, very stately, so people line up to approach her, sometimes take her hand, sometimes embrace her. She finds something to say to everbody, thanks them, thanks them for coming. In her heart, she wants them to go away. She wants to be back in the cemetery, back in the sickroom, the hospital. She knows it isn't possible. But it's her only hope, the wish to move backward. And just a little, not so far as the marriage, the first kiss. by #Louise Gluck#Nobelprize#celebratinglifeand death

A post shared by Sutapa Sikdar (@sikdarsutapa) on Oct 8, 2020 at 5:19am PDT

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