For 53 years, S S Mishra and his wife built a life around the little things. They shared the housework, practised yoga every morning, knew exactly how the other liked breakfast, and found comfort in routines that never felt ordinary.

When she passed away last year, those routines remained. She did not.

But in the middle of grief, Mishra found an unexpected way to keep her memory alive.

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“My wife’s art got appreciation after she died,” he says.

His........

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