City Series – Muskan Nayyar in Ludhiana, We the Isolationists (143rd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Muskan Nayyar] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a light reminding us to breathe. I see every force reminding us that we had gone too far. I see…
City Series – Divya Patpatia in Melbourne, We the Isolationists (142nd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Divya Patpatia] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see the privileged immigrant I now am, walking in a city holding its breath far away from everything I called home…
City Series – Akanksha Singh in Delhi, We the Isolationists (141st Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Akanksha Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see January’s indifferent sun bathing us, me and my friend, through the shredded canopy as we read. I disturb the static…
City Series – Tanvi Mishra in Delhi, We the Isolationists (140th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Tanvi Mishra] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see what should have been the happiest day of my life. My husband was supposed to arrive today with his entire…
City Series – Thaihamdao Haflongbar in Delhi, We the Isolationists (139th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Thaihamdao Haflongbar] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself retiring to my bed, after having seen hundreds of patients close their eyes forever. I see the world around…
City Series – Ekta Shaikh in Karachi, Pakistan, We the Isolationists (138th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Ekta Shaikh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see the empty and soulless streets of Karachi. I hear dogs barking, as if they were calling us outside. This hidden…
City Series – Kaustav Dey in Bangalore, We the Isolationists (137th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Kaustav Dey] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a valley of flowers spreading as far as my eyes cannot see. For now. I am in Kashmir – and…
City Series – Shiva Mittal in Firozabad, We the Isolationists (136th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Shiva Mittal] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see love of mine sitting next to me. I feel walls melting into curtains and sunlight falling over a familiar face….
City Series – Babar Iqbal in Shopian, Kashmir, We the Isolationists (135th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Babar Iqbal] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself dozing off with the sound of rain falling on the roof; The intoxicating smell of wet earth; Warm cosy…
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Author Rakhshanda Jalil, Central Delhi
The parlour confession. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Proust Questionnaire represents a confessional game that owes its structure to answers given by celebrated French writer Marcel Proust in two parties that he attended at ages 13 and…
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