LOSING YOU: Four families remember the teachers of Chitrakoot who died of Covid-19 from panchayat-poll duty

There is a very Indian dream. You work until 60 at a stable, preferably sarkari naukri (government job) you don’t enjoy. You put your salary towards ensuring your children have everything they need. An education, tuition classes, entrance-exam coaching… whatever it takes to guarantee the next generation has it better. It’s the dream depicted in LIC and life insurance ads. In the dream you retire having lived a respectable life, with your children successful, in life-trajectories you didn’t even see in your wildest dreams. You retire, and then finally, you get to do whatever you want.  This very Indian story is a story about dreams deferred. Mr. Ram Moorat Yadav was one such man, his son Arpit Kumar recalls. “Shauk