How Grief Impacts Creativity

By Sweta Srivastava Vikram 

This past year brought my family many reasons to grieve. In May of 2023, we received a call that both my father and father-in-law were admitted in the ICU. My hands quiver as I type this. We had seen them a month earlier in India and shared meals together. Both men in their 70s, they had their health issues. But there was no reason to believe that we’d be cremating them both a few weeks later. 

It felt like a dystopian novel where someone was experimenting w...