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Pay cuts, job losses, housework sharing, looking after children all these took a toll.
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The abuse wasn’t new. Delhi-based Supriya Sinha’s husband would get drunk every day and beat her up. He once threatened to throw their baby down the stairs. Supriya had endured it over the two years of their marriage. Then the pandemic struck. Her husband’s behaviour worsened, and when he began to repeatedly call her boss and abuse him, she lost her job. As the lockdown confined the couple indoors, taking away the space and time between them, the relationship could no longer be saved. Supriya decided to leave her husband.