City Series – Srishti Singh in Chandigarh, We the Isolationists (429th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Srishti Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see the turmoil within. The fear of not knowing what comes next and feel the aura of uncertainty hovering above the…
City Series – Tejaswini Gadhave in Pune, We the Isolationists (428th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Tejaswini Gadhave] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see myself reliving the sociable and busy life I had carved for myself in the last four years in Bombay, away…
City Series – Tawfeeq Irshad Mir, in Sopore, Kashmir, We the Isolationists (427th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Tawfeeq Irshad Mir] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see the colourful birds resting on the door panes emulated with surreal symphonies. The environ around summons me as if…
City Series – Indrani Dasgupta in Clarksburg, the US, We the Isolationists (426th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Indrani Dasgupta] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see an altered pace of a world that was just until the other day a haven for relentless pursuit of personal…
City Series – Poushali Chakraborty in Calcutta, We the Isolationists (425th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Poushali Chakraborty] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see things which ‘were’ so close but yet so far ‘now’. But there again I see myself living a life which…
Mission Delhi – Muhammed Gulzar, Sunder Nursery
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s evening. He’s lying sprawled along a grassy slope, against a background of yellow flowers. The sky is pitch blue. The air is breezy. His head is resting against his hand. He is…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Aysha Naurein, Coimbatore
The 255th death. [By Aysha Naurein] Aysha Naurein was a dreamer. She saw big, wild dreams, the kind that people would consider over-ambitious and unrealistic if she spoke about it. So she didn’t. She feared living an ordinary life, not…
City Monument – Ruined Graveyard, Deer Park
Here lie the unknown. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It has been raining on and off for the past few days, and the graves have gone mossy. The stoney ground is green and slippery too. But this evening,…
Mission Delhi – Ashu Prashar, IP Extension & South Point Mall
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is in his early 50s and wishes to write a book. He has already started preliminary work. “It will be a book on housekeeping ethics and style,” says Ashu Prashar, an assistant…
Mission Delhi – Raju, Near Yamuna Bazar
Homecoming dress. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Waste collector Raju’s bulging sack is huge. “It has all the trash I have collected today,” he says. Though it is only early morning in this market lane, it is already…
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