YOUNG ELDERS
India's young population will not be youthful forever. The numbers of "young elders", that is, people who are sixty-five to seventy-two, are going up rapidly. As for the really old, those who are ninety and above, they, too, are growing in numbers.
But let her, at sixty, even attempt to have a romance after being widowed, and she will find herself to be the target of all kinds of wagging tongues. A widower, however, is encouraged to remarry, at any age.
(From Mitra Phukan: "An ageist society", in her bi-weekly column ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in The Assam Tribune SUNDAY READING, February 19, 2017.)
Kishalay Sinha [G]
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