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story about loss

An empty cane chair at a Bengali family's Durga Puja table — Krishna story about grief and loss.
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The Empty Chair at the Table

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe cane chair at the head of the table had been empty for four months, but nobody had said so out loud until Ishaan, seven years old and unaware of the rule nobody had written down, pulled it out and climbed onto it during the Ashtami lunch. “Ishaan, not there,”