Bangalore: K Ravishankar, the founder of Green Dairy Farm, recalls the days when he saved up every penny possible to kick start his cheese factory in the year 2009. The factory he built with soaring ambitions, blood, sweat, and tears is on the verge of shutting down owing to the pandemic. The resurgence of the Covid-19 […]
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People with disabilities were not able to get regular check-ups during the pandemic because the hospitals were not accepting non-Covid cases. Bengaluru: Prema became a patient of polio when she was a young girl. Now she walks with the help of callipers, and shoes with heels. She requires regular check-ups with her doctor to keep […]
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“Mamma, listen. Do not panic but start stocking up little by little,” I subtly warned my mother over the phone, somewhere in the mid-February, when the world was going bonkers over Brexit, America’s Israel-Palestine Policy, and some Chinese virus that made Apple shut its production in China. My father chuckled in the background. Given my […]
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By Savyata Mishra The global COVID-19 outbreak is many things; but “just another bad flu season” is not one of them. While it gave some a much-needed break from work, for others, nothing changed except their workplace, which had now shifted to their homes. For some, it meant walking miles and crossing borders to reach home […]
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There were old people walking with sticks, kids clinging to their mother’s arms, some people in uniform, a group of hippies, and hundreds of people briskly moving on the premises of a tightly packed Bengaluru airport. However, they all had one thing in common—a mask on their faces. By Manasvi Gupta The last day before […]
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“[E]very generation must know its own suffering….I curse the price I have to pay. But I’m making my peace with it, now you make yours.” Boris Shcherbina (From the HBO series “Chernobyl”) By Niket Nishant The claustrophobic “new normal” of the real world jumps me every time I wake up in the morning (or, these […]
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Tamanna Yasmin The ongoing lockdown has affected everybody’s life in one way or the other. With the sudden announcement of the lockdown, a lot of people got stuck wherever they were. The same happened with my father, who lives in Nadia, West Bengal, due to his business. With no transport available, he was unable to […]
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A personal account of the impact of coronavirus outbreak and subsequent nationwide lockdown. By Jagriti Parakh Being a journalism grad, I had been following news related to the coronavirus outbreak ever since the beginning of this year, when the virus had not even stretched its arms beyond the geographical borders of China. I’ll be honest: […]
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As I close my eyes to go back to sleep for the third time today, I envision a frozen year with only screens and distance. Miles away from home, I envision my parents in our garden, sipping on their chai occasionally while in the middle of an argument. Maa just won’t let dad out of […]
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By Batchu Rushali Can you imagine a tiny little virus which is not even visible to the naked eye can just turn the world upside down? That’s how unpredictable life can get at times. “Each of you will enter one or the other media organization within the next few months. You are not students anymore,” […]
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