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What can a person forced to stay at home possibly do? With going to office suddenly turning passé and stepping out becoming hazardous to health, those trying to break the coronavirus chain through social distancing could well revive the old tradition of writing on their diaries. In our special series, Corona Diaries, New Delhi-based senior journalist Akshaya Mishra captures the subtleties of life and the times we are in.
CORONA DIARIES 31: No Holding Back The Creative Drive; Critics Can Wait
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense, said Pablo Picasso, the Spanish painter and pioneer of cubism. It is heartening to note that most friends have abandoned good sense to…
Corona Diaries 30: Between Lockdown & Unlocking Some Unsettling Questions
India is unlocking. This is when COVID-19 cases are on the threshold of two lakh, the seventh maximum in the world. And experts say we are still nowhere near the peak; it is still about a…
Corona Diaries 29: Of Social Media, Donald Trump & Redlines
What should social media platforms be -- passive bulletin boards or arbiters of truth? Mired in unresolved debates on ethicality and public morality for long, the question gets a fresh lease…
Corona Diaries 28: An Indian Summer With A Difference
It's summer. The sun is in a pernicious mood. Hot air hits your face in rude blasts. When it stops, searing heat takes over, trying to bake you alive. The aquamarine sky hangs clear and…
Corona Diaries 27: Our Clay Dams Against A Tsunami
It's getting worse. Consecutive lockdowns now look no better than crumbling clay dams before a tsunami. As this piece is being written, COVID-19 cases in India have surpassed the 1.5 lakh…
Corona Diaries 26: Silence Of The Sexes
It's been a while we spoke about the sexes during the lockdown and had a light-hearted look into their predicament. In confinement together for such a long time, tied to similar routines and…
Corona Diaries 25: The Virus May Have Lost Scare Quotient, But Good Luck Still Counts
In one of these columns weeks ago, we talked about good luck. It is sheer good luck if you didn't have a tryst with the virus and got COVID-19, nothing else, the column said.
Things stand…
Corona Diaries 24: About New Etiquettes & Why IPL Will Be Win-Win For All
In hindsight, social distancing, the expression that has gained wide currency in the wake of the pandemic scare, may have been a bit off the mark in describing one of the important…
Corona Diaries 23: Will Agony Of Migrants Force States To Introspect?
It is the well-heeled who allowed the virus a free ride to the country. And it's the poor who has to pay the price.
Even as they wage a desperate battle against piling misery, they have…
Corona Diaries 21: Silly Points On Economics & Numbers
Social media, the theatre of all things absurd and frivolous, has been unusually active over the last few days. Ever since the number 20 lakh crore hit the headlines and the nation's…