Corona Notes

“Je voudrais une baguette traditionnelle sil vous plait (can I get a traditional loaf of bread, please?)” I ask, having waited patiently for 15 minutes outside my local “boulangerie” (bakery),...

Odias living in the UK are rallying together to support one another in these difficult times when the entire world is affected due to COVID-19. Members of the Odia Society...

The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the world at a time when my mind has wandered in the quest to find answers to uncertainty. For instance, why does uncertainty perplex some...

I find myself in an exclamatory mood, bandying about clichés such as ‘ironical’, ‘a mockery of fate’, ‘hoist with one’s own petard’ as I sit down to pen my corona...

London: This lockdown has been an experience of a lifetime, not only for me but for many others I know. I was/am one of those fortunate/unfortunate ones who decided to...

As we enter Day 36 of the lockdown in Odisha, this is what I have to say: one can actually get used to staying at home. Of course staying on...

In the COVID-19 lockdown scenario, parents of urban school-going children are anxious over the uncertainty that looms over reopening of educational institutions. The chief concern lies in the eventuality of...

I am writing this in the village where I was born and still live, a village of 700 inhabitants in the province of Quebec, Canada, set on a deep lake...

I am writing this in the village where I was born and still live, a village of 700 inhabitants in the province of Quebec, Canada, set on a deep lake...

On Good Friday it was blue skies, 20 degree Celsius. With higher temperatures, the UK government has banned congregating outdoors. A walk was allowed. Mine took me through the park,...