The life of a digital artist, caught between the virtual world and the real, becomes even more unreal because of the lockdown. These were times that made your daily commute seem like a pleasure trip. You yearned to take the train or the cab, and walk down the street, like you have done every morning for years on end. But the pandemic comes along and changes the rules of the game. Now everybody is confined…
Bheeti (fear) can take many constructs. During a raging pandemic, fear is omnipresent, and it manifests itself in some form or the other in every mind. A young boy, staying safe at home, has his own demons to deal with. The uncertainty that haunts the world does not leave behind his little soul untouched. He hopes for an official announcement from the authorities cancelling his annual exams. Waiting indefinitely for news that could put this…
2020 was expected to be an outstanding year. The world had made ambitious plans to celebrate the year with the choicest of humanity’s accomplishments. But destiny had other plans. A year that started with news about a novel virus in one corner of the world was soon the mute spectator to a worldwide pandemic, the scale of which was never seen before in this lifetime. As the winter turned into spring, the situation in the…
The pandemic is transforming the world as we knew it, and the transformation is not yet complete. As we encounter fresh waves and come across new mutations in the virus, humankind continues to evolve and adapt to the changing conditions. We cannot yet see the finish line ahead, neither do we know what the end of the pandemic will bring. We will be sagacious to expect some significant changes in our ways after the pandemic….
The trying times of the pandemic were not a squandering of many pleasant weeks for many among us. Making the best use of the time, many have learnt new skills, tried their hands at activities that have always fascinated them, created something they have always wanted and discovered a new skill they did not realize they possessed. ‘Pandemic!–The Musical’ results from one such discovery where the quest to challenge one’s own limits and to channel…