It is difficult for most youngsters to come to terms with the absence of their father at a solemn occasion like marriage, particularly when they have lost him in recent years.
However, much he loved to have the reassuring presence of his father at his wedding, Dr. Yathish, who is pursuing his post-graduate studies at JSS Ayurvedic College in Mysuru, lost his father Ramesh, an agriculturalist from Ajjampura in Chickmagalur district’s Kadur taluk, to COVID-19 pandemic.
So, when he tied the nuptial knot with Dr. Apoorva, a native of Malkundi in Nanjangud taluk, at Santana Ganapathi Kalyana Mantapa in Nanjangud near Mysuru on May 8, he had a life-size statue of his father, made out of silicon, overlooking the ceremonies.
