As coronavirus rips through India, diaspora struggles to cope with deluge of dark news from homeland

Bad news, knowing no time zones, arrives in a jarring burst of messages, calls and posts telling millions of members of India’s worldwide diaspora that yet another loved one has been sickened or lost to the coronavirus.Sometimes it comes in a barrage of WhatsApp messages first thing in the morning, and sometimes it lands in the middle of the night, as it did for Mohini Gadré‘s father.A 3am call at his San Francisco Bay Area home let him know that his octogenarian mother – who had tested…

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