Lockdown Diary Part 9 – Admit it, We Are in Hell
In April 2020 when I started my Lockdown Diary, little did I imagine that May 2021 would still find us locked up. Well, not in as hard and harsh a …
Lockdown Diary Part 8 – Green Calm Below. Blue Quietness Above.
We are now in our eighth month of Lockdown. While many things have been allowed to reopen, life is far, far from normal. Schools, colleges, places of worship, swimming pools, …
Lockdown Diary Part 7 – Baby Steps – Our First Restaurant Visit
It’s been a long, strange and bizarre seven months. First, there was fear and paranoia. Then acceptance, adjustment and making the best of the situation i.e. learning how to manage …
Lockdown Diary Part 6 – 1G bear the brunt of the Covid-19 Lockdown
My husband’s cousins WhatsApp group is called ‘Stonethrowers 2G’. And before the ED and the IT departments swarm down like a plague of locusts, let me quickly say, this has …
Lockdown Diary Part 5 – All hail the BMC!
To say the last few months have been surreal would be a serious understatement. It’s almost like we all shut our eyes one day and opened them in an unknown …
Lockdown Diary Part 4 – Shopping in the Time of Corona
We are now crawling slowly out of Lockdown. While Lockdown 1.0 was announced at the speed of lightning, the Unlock process is being unveiled at a snail’s pace. The fact …
Lockdown Diary Part 3 – Our collective guilt
We are now on day 4 of Lockdown 4.0. 58 days if you count the All – India Lockdown and 61 days for Maharashtra. The contours and relaxations of this …
Lockdown Diary Part 2 – Lockdown 3.0 is making me angry
As I write this, we are entering Day 1 of Lockdown 3.0. India was first put into lockdown on the 24th of March for a period of 3 weeks. This …
Lockdown Diary Part 1 – And so, it began…
On the 14th of March 2020 my extended family, thirty of us, were at a resort in Karjat, celebrating my parents 60th wedding anniversary. Yes, there were already a few …
Kofuku – Bandra
This may sound like a contradiction, but my husband, Mr Stonethrower and I are so obsessed with good food that we rarely ever go to new restaurants. We are the …