City Series – Aparajita Ghosh in Bombay, We the Isolationists (33rd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Aparajita Ghosh] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see a musical retreat, Ustad Fareed Ayaz and Ustad Puranchand Wadali sharing a broad rostrum. The honeyed, husky voice of…
City Series – Masroor Rizvi in Bihar Sharif, We the Isolationists (32nd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Masroor Rizvi] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see myself hearing you. The patter draws me closer and and so does nature. I hear the winds complaining of…
City Series – Vindhya Vatsyayan in Delhi, We the Isolationists (31st Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Vindhya Vatsyayan] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see people, like a lot of people. People not rushing to the coming metro. People smiling a lot more. People…
City Series – Aakanksha R Gautam in Delhi, We the Isolationists (30th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Aakanksha R Gautam] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see the yellow flowers on the sidewalk of Firozshah road. I see people sipping chai at tapri I regularly…
City Series – Mehvish Shaikh in Bombay, We the Isolationists (29th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Mehvish Shaikh] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see my younger self. I see a timid teenager whiling her time away in studies in a dingy loft of…
City Series – Shahaan Anjum in Srinagar, We the Isolationists (27th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Shahaan Anjum] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see the marketing that governments do who do not themselves handle it, the absurdness of how it can, and does,…
City Series – Aishwarya Mohan Gahrana in Delhi, We the Isolationists (26th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Aishwarya Mohan Gahrana] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see a black space. The black was darker. This was a journey in a random time. Forgotten friends were…
City Series – Yimshen Naro Jamir in Guwahati, We the Isolationists (25th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Yimshen Naro Jamir] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see myself thinking about the date I have to miss. One chance to beg my love to stay, now…
City Series – Abhijeet Singh in Lucknow, We the Isolationists (24th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Abhijeet Singh] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see the most tragic of all Greek tragedies being enacted. Here, in Chowk, I hear, invisible whimpers. The Rumi Darwaza,…
City Series – Vedika Gupta in Villafranca, Spain, We the Isolationists (23rd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Vedika Gupta] I close my eyes in my self-isolation from corona… and I see someone in the distance on court 8 passing the net. Clearing skid lines and ball marks. I find myself…
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