Meet Mieko Catlett: Japanese woman who travelled to Uttarakhand years after her husband’s death to fulfil his last wish of immersing his ashes in the sacred Saryu River |
Mieko Catlett (Instagram) Some journeys are planned. And some begin with a promise. For Mieko Catlett, the journey from Japan to Bageshwar in Uttarakhand was about keeping a promise she had made to her late husband, Robert Catlett. After his death, she came back to the Himalayan town carrying his ashes. To fulfill his final…