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A sense of community is one of the driving forces behind mankind’s will to continue to thrive amidst all odds. Off late, however, that itself seems to have been taken away from us as we are forced to socially distance ourselves for prolonged periods of time, due to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown in India was imposed on March 24, after which the country saw intermittent relaxing and reinforcing of rules, amidst which life took on a way slower pace than we had been used to. One of the major downsides of the lockdown continues to be an inability to be physically present at the demise of a loved one. Safe commutation is an oxymoron in these times, making it almost impossible for us to go where we please.
As a means to salve our quarantine blues and help us connect with people, we introduce you to an online platform giving people the space to pay their tributes to their loved ones after their demise.
Tributes.in is an online platform founded in 2015 by Mr Raj Kumar Jalan, and over the past few years, its popularity has skyrocketed.
There are many advantages to using Tributes.in, the chief among which is the fact that it gives you the opportunity to post an obituary on the platform immediately after a demise. Also, any obituary created on Tributes remains active forever. In effect, a loved one’s memory too lives on forever on Tributes.in. New photos, videos, and written notes can also be continuously added to an obituary created on the portal.
Furthermore, when the deceased’s birth or death anniversary is five days away, their obituary is visible on the home page of the Indiaonline.in network. The network serves countless communities across the country ; so, with the advent of the deceased’s birth or death anniversary, all those living in his or her community learn about it.
Posting an obituary is free for the first 30 days. Families that use Tributes.in can post a URL of the online obituary in print media.
There is another platform called Shraddhanjali, which gives the user the option to convey messages both in Hindi and in English, as per their convenience.
The idea behind the initiative was providing an avenue for affordable accessibility to a public platform where people could share their grief together. Grieving together gives people a sense of belonging, which is an essential part of the process of bereaving.
“The idea was in our minds for more than 10-12 years. The gradual shift of matrimonial ads, jobs, and classified services from the print to the online medium was the chief motivating factor,” says , Mr. Rajkumar Jalan, CEO & Co-Founder, Tributes.in
She also affirms that there has been widespread acceptance for this service from the common people, who have found solace in an online community at a time when social isolation has become the norm of the day.
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