THE BEREAVED

Abstract

To humanize the stories of thousands who have died in the terror attacks which have gripped the whole country for the past decade, it is necessary to tell their stories in an impressionistic form so that people know what they have lost in the process. Moreover, there is no victim support network formed by the state. Therefore, the families of these victims are on their own after a few days of national mourning, media attention and compensation announcements. They face problems ranging from insurance issues, lengthy medico legal procedures, difficulty in finding compensation cheques, psychological trauma, media‟s insensitive reporting, injustice and the changing dynamics of a family after the head of the family is no more. The society doesn‟t help either, and the process of grief is not respected. The Bereaved documents it all in a multimedia story, by making creative non-fiction accounts of the stories of the families affected by terrorism and highlighting the problems they faced later in life.