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 …
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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 …