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“When my husband was in ICU during the third wave, I got a lot of strength and inner peace only because of this group and the hymns we learnt. In difficult times, we had each other.”
“When my husband was in ICU during the third wave, I got a lot of strength and inner peace only because of this group and the hymns we learnt. In difficult times, we had each other.”
HYDERABAD: Had it not been for this group of women, 63-year-old N Ramamani says she would have gone insane during the pandemic. These friends from her music class, many of them suffering from solitude and personal losses like herself, did not just drive her loneliness and depression away, but also helped her survive a 10-day ICU stint.
Ramamani is part of a group of Hyderabad homemakers who found solace in learning music and kept the sessions on despite the pandemic and all the challenges that came with it.
“After my father’s passing away, my mother was depressed for two years until she found her music teacher. Living alone doesn’t bother her now because she is busy taking lessons and practising throughout the day,” says Ramamani’s son Sridhar, who has been living abroad for the last eight years.
Ramamani has been part of the community since October 2019, what she now calls on of the best decisions of her life. “These days, I don’t even find time to read newspapers or watch TV,” she says. She is always busy preparing notes, humming and practising while doing household chores, taking lessons or mentoring her sub-group.
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