City Series – Priyanka Dey in Delhi, We the Isolationists (236th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Priyanka Dey] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a younger me of only 13, holding my sister, a gooey slime of human innocence in my arms. She has…
City Series – Debjani Sengupta in Delhi, We the Isolationists (235th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Debjani Sengupta] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see these kaleidoscopic dreams, not of Delhi, where I live and work, but of Kolkata, where I was born and where…
Living History – Aryak Ray’s Chapter, Udyog Vihar
Life during Corona. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Coronavirus will become yesterday’s news sooner or later. That doesn’t change the fact that we are living through a crisis the like of which hasn’t been seen in generations. One day, a century…
City Series – Shreyashi Mandal in Calcutta, We the Isolationists (234th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Shreyashi Mandal] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see cheerful faces, greeting one another, and I see an outsider; packing his suitcase, pacing the room. At first, he thought,…
City Series – Sethu Menon in Kochi, Kerala, We the Isolationists (233rd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Sethu Menon] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see the old walls of my home; they talk, I listen. It took a pandemic to get me back home for…
City Series – Devika Rajeev in Chennai, We the Isolationists (232nd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Devika Rajeev] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself confused between nosediving into the fortunate possibilities of nurturing myself and permitting myself to be consumed by the daunting…
City Series – Rishel Choudhury in Delhi, We the Isolationists (231st Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Rishel Choudhury] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see The highway to the desert From our city Marches on The long queue of silhouettes Moving slowly But steadily Over…
City Series – Shifa Ijaz in Faisalabad, Pakistan, We the Isolationists (230th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Shifa Ijaz] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself being anxious all the time. I close my eyes and I see the trauma coming back to me which…
City Series – Shraddha Agarwal in Bombay, We the Isolationists (229th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Shraddha Agarwal] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see the 11-year-old Sevaram from Indore who wore a TikTok shirt and sold me ‘ek pe ek chai free, sirf aapke…
City Series – Gaura Singh in Ahmedabad, We the Isolationists (228th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Gaura Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see them in embrace as they sleep, sipping on tea smiling at each other in the morning. They blush and ask…
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