More than half a million people have officially died so far because of Covid-19 in India - the WHO reckons the actual toll could be nearly 10 times higher. More than two years since the pandemic began, many are still grappling with their losses, and a memorial to mourn people lost to the virus has met with a surprisingly underwhelming response. Is India in a haste to bury the memories of the pandemic?

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A year ago, a couple battled Covid-19 on different floors of the same hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata.

As her husband's condition deteriorated in intensive care, Papri Chaudhuri, still feverish and weak, yanked off her intravenous line, and begged nurses to let her see him.

So they slipped her into protective gear, made her wear a face shield and gloves, plonked her on a wheelchair and smuggled her into the ICU.

"I can't even breathe now," Arup Prakash Chaudhuri, strapped to a breathing machine through a nasal mask, whispered. Then he began sobbing and inertly held his wife's gloved hand.

Ms Chaudhuri remembers looking at her 58-year-old husband blankly.

"He's a fighter," a nurse told her. "He'll make it."

He didn't.

Four days later, Arup, a government engineer, an ace swimmer and father to a 22-year-old daughter, was dead, another grim statistic of the catastrophic second wave of the pandemic that swept through India last summer.