City Series – Sanya Sethi in Kanpur, We the Isolationists (306th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Sanya Sethi] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… and I see myself trying to decipher the meaningless chatter of wild pigeons while Chughtai’s Masooma lights a cigarette and takes three…
City Series – Ansar Manzoor in Anantnag, Kashmir, We the Isolationists (305th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Ansar Manzoor] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… and I see lockdown within a lockdown. Bullets fly birds chirp. Blood pours from clouds rain watches. I wake up every morning…
City Series – Nilofar in Delhi, We the Isolationists (304th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Nilofar] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… and I see myself. Not self-obsessed, just on an eternal quest to find myself. 26 years of being trapped in this body. But…
City Series – Digvijay Singh in Delhi, We the Isolationists (303rd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Digvijay Singh] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… and I see all the major and minor chords of life on this planet. I see the things we take for granted….
City Series – Mahima Devda in Bhopal, We the Isolationists (302nd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Mahima Devda] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… and I see myself taking my mum’s place, doing the household chores, holding the family together. As I close my eyes to…
City Series – Tapaswinee Mitra in Calcutta, We the Isolationists (301st Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Tapaswinee Mitra] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… and I see my room in Delhi, which I had left hurriedly on 13th March, very excited then to go back home….
City Series – Divyanshi Gupta in Kanpur, We the Isolationists (300th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Divyanshi Gupta] I close my eyes in self isolation from corona… And I see a huge but an idle arena. A bird chirruped constantly on one side, Fluttering with no pressure to hide….
City Series – Vibha Chakravarty Kumar in Kangra Valley, We the Isolationists (299th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Vibha Chakravarty Kumar] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see this crucial time we are living through transition into a new world where phenomena such as fracking, wiping of…
City Style – The Masks of Zamrudpur, South Delhi
Life in the corona. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The spice seller is sitting behind sacks filled with powdered mirchi, haldi, dhaniya and garam masala. The boyish butcher is sitting with his knife, his chickens cooped up in…
Mission Delhi – Anil Kumar Shah, Indira Colony, Gurgaon
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He had never imagined he would see such a day. “Calling Papa and Mummy in the village to send me urgent money filled me with…
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