Sutapa Sikdar shares a tear-jerking poem as she posts a photo of Irrfan Khan’s grave adorned with roses – Times of India

Irrfan Khan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar recently took to her social media handle to share a post dedicated to the late actor. In this photo, we can see Irrfan’s grave adorned with roses along with a fresh coat of white paint. Along with the picture, she shared an emotional poem by American poet Louise Glück

The post was captioned as, ”I’ll tell you something: every day

people are dying. And that’s just the beginning.

Every day, in funeral homes, new widows are born,
new orphans. They sit with their hands folded,

trying to decide about this new life.

Then they’re in the cemetery, some of them

for the first time. They’re frightened of crying,

sometimes of not crying. Someone leans over,

tells them what to do next, which might mean

saying a few words, sometimes

throwing dirt in the open grave.

And after that, everyone goes back to the house,

which is suddenly full of visitors.

The widow sits on the couch, very stately,

so people line up to approach her,

sometimes take her hand, sometimes embrace her.

She finds something to say to everbody,

thanks them, thanks them for coming.

In her heart, she wants them to go away.

She wants to be back in the cemetery,

back in the sickroom, the hospital. She knows

it isn’t possible. But it’s her only hope,

the wish to move backward. And just a little,

not so far as the marriage, the first kiss.

by #Louise Gluck#Nobelprize#celebratinglifeand death”.

Check out her post here:

The ‘Life of Pi’ actor’s son Babil Khan too shared the same photo with a heartfelt note. “When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant, but when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and Strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” – Tarkovsky . Here’s to watching ‘Stalker’ with you for my first film essay three years ago, I’m watching ‘Stalker’ now for the last dissertation. I pause the film from time to time, just like you did with me, to take it all in, you were teaching me then, now I teach myself. Here’s to you, who never hardened, here’s to your forgiving, sensitive soul”, he wrote.

Irrfan passed away on April 29 this year. The star was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai after he suffered a colon infection. He is survived by his wife Sutapa and two kids – Babil, Ayan.