Ensuring a dignified end to the abandoned Ensuring a dignified end to the abandoned Pune Mirror / Updated: May 21, 2021, 06:00 IST BEYOND WORDS The pandemic has unleashed unprecedented terror in the city with the fear of the virus leading to many unpleasant incidents including the kin of the COVID dead abandoning the bodies of their loved ones. This could not be easy on any family, but such is the anxiety prevailing in people’s minds. Enter the two attendants at the crematorium of the beyond the self. Lalit Jadhav is the one leading from the front, ably assisted by Kishor Kshirsagar. Ever since the chaos of the pandemic began last year, the duo trudges on daily, undeterred by the virus or the consequences, to accord a dignified end to the unclaimed bodies. They live up to their profession in letter and spirit, even as the father of one of them battles the novel coronavirus at a city hospital.