City Walk – Corona-Era Lodhi Garden, Central Delhi
Old beauty in the new normal. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is super-crowded. Lodhi Garden. There are totas, bayas, kala papeehas, puhyas, mynas, babilas, kauwas, ullus, gaurayyas… bulbuls, koyals, the beautifully named ram chiriyas, kabutars and, of…
City Series – Sayonee Goswami in Digboi, Assam, We the Isolationists (365th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Sayonee Goswami] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a world so beautiful and green, sitting under a laburnum tree, I am reading the classic tales of Agatha, and…
City Series – Uneza Irshad in Delhi, We the Isolationists (364th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Uneza Irshad] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see what an inquilabi I used to be (I’ll always be ) I see the last winters in a glimpse the…
City Series – Saurabh Singh in Siddharth Nagar, We the Isolationists (362nd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Saurabh Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself sitting in a car, looking out side and thinking about my half-completed book of an incomplete love story. I…
City Series – Kanan Parmar in Noida, We the Isolationists (361st Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Kanan Parmar] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a beautifully painted sky that is being clicked by thousands and the photos being posted online. I see how people…
City Series – Veena Gupta in Faridabad, We the Isolationists (360th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Veena Gupta] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself on a vacation with my college friends. No inhibitions, no barriers, simply fun-filled days reliving the carefree college days….
City Series – Vikram Singh in Ujjalwas Village in Rajasthan, We the Isolationists (359th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Vikram Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself holding within, the image of her auspicious arrival when she came upwards from the stairs and there I stood…
City Series – Aisha Zafar in Allahabad, We the Isolationists (358th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Aisha Zafar] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself wondering if we’ll learn anything from this time. Knowing we can go to sleep one night thinking there’s no…
City Series – Kajal Jha in Delhi, We the Isolationists (357th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Kajal Jha] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see hypocrisy dipped with honey and social media choking with woke hashtags. #…#…#… I see ubiquitous chaos iced with Weltschmerz. I…
City Series – Kevin Arnold Dsouza in Bombay, We the Isolationists (356th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Kevin Arnold Dsouza] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself thinking about love and luck, about its similar nature. You start to realize that there are but two…
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