Author Susheela Pathak, who holds the record of being the oldest living author in India, returned home on April 22 after battling COVID-19 for over two weeks in a Thane-based hospital. The 102-year-old had taken her first dose of Covaxin on March 23. She tested positive before her second dose.

Pathak lives in Juhu with her grandson Dr Sujit Bopardikar, his wife Dr Vijaya Pathak, and their two children Tej and Tarini. Dr Bopardikar said, “We believe my grandmother caught the virus from one of the people we hired as house help and the person was also working at another COVID patient’s house. The house help was asymptotic.”