K’taka man installs life-size statue of late wife at new house
   Date :13-Aug-2020

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 Srinivas Gupta installed a silicone wax statue of his late wife Madhavi at his newly-constructed home on the occasion of housewarming ceremony, in her memory, in Koppala district on Tuesday. Madhavi had died three years ago in a car accident on the way to Tirupati. (PTI)
 
 
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Wax models are not suitable for the climate, so the family opted a silicone one 
 
A 56-YEAR-OLD businessman in Karnataka’s Koppal has turned his sorrow into a souvenir. Srinivas Gupta has got a life-size statue of his late wife installed at his new home for the house-warming ceremony. “We managed to get a silicone replica of our mother, K V N Madhavi, from a fabricator in Bengaluru. It took us almost a year to get it done, and we showcased our mother’s statue in our new house,” Sindhusha, Gupta’s youngest daughter told IANS on Tuesday. Gupta’s wife succumbed to injuries following an accident in 2017 while she was on her way to the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh.
 
The vehicle she was travelling in hit a reversing truck in Kolar, leading to her untimely demise. “We were also inside the vehicle but nothing happened to us but we lost our mother,” said Sindhusha. The Gupta family hails from Andhra Pradesh. While Srinivas Gupta is from West Godavari district headquarters Eluru, his wife was from Guntur. “Twenty years ago, our family moved to Koppal for better business prospects. My father is a human hair exporter. He buys hair at the Tirupathi temple auction,” said Sindhusha.
 
“Since we relocated from our native place and we did not have a large circle of family or friends here, the four of us were very close to each other,” said Sindusha who studied chemical engineering and joined her father’s business. Gupta and his daughters could not recover from the sorrow of the untimely loss for two years since the incident. But they have been trying to rebuild their lives for the past year now. After recovering from his wife’s loss, Gupta decided to keep her memory alive and first thought of getting a wax statue made.
 
“Wax models are not suitable for the climate in Koppal, so we were advised to go for a silicone one, which is sturdier,” said the younger daughter. Apart from being sturdy, the silicone model also enables the daughters to change its clothes and jewellery.