Grieving Indian husband has £2,500 life-size silicon dummy of his dead wife made trends now
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An Indian pensioner who lost his wife of 39 years during the Covid-19 pandemic has spent £2,500 (250,000 rupees) on a life-sized replica doll made in her image.
Retired civil servant Tapas Sandilya, 65, commissioned a sculptor to create a silicone statue of his late partner Indrani, who died on May 4, 2021, aged 59.
She passed away alone in hospital as Tapas was forced to isolate at their home in Kolkata during India's second wave of Covid, which proved far more devastating than the first.
But now Indrani's likeness sits on the sofa in her favourite spot, adorned in a sari and gold jewellery with her hair coiffed just so by Tapas himself.
Retired civil servant Tapas Sandilya, 65 (left), commissioned a sculptor to create a silicone statue (right) of his late partner Indrani, who died on May 4, 2021, aged 59
