Ananta: The Vilomah Chronicle

The English language has no word for a parent who has outlived a child. Sanskrit does. Vilomah — against the natural order. And for the state that follows — the permanent, conscious architecture that every bereaved parent enters and never leaves — Sanskrit gives us Ananta. Infinite. Without end. 18.7 million parents in the United States have outlived a child — and over 1 billion parents globally since 1950. The world counted the children. Nobody counted the parents. Ananta is the forensic a...