A ten-year-old on how online teaching misses those crucial moments of camaraderie that can only be created in a physical classroom.
Tag: coronavirus
Unforgiving Mirror
A poem on how in the years to come, the scars of 2020 will be clear to see.
The Problem with Balance: My Issue with Centrism
Balance is not a weighing scale where the good levels out the bad. An approach such as this leads to false equivalence, which underplays the wrong and overestimates the …
One Lockdown, Two Women, Two Stories
The real-life contrasting stories of two working women and their experiences during the lockdown.
How Quarantine Gave Me an Opportunity to Reconnect With Art
It took me three years and one lockdown to sketch again, and this time it’s going to stay.
Jinxed It
'I am not used to being happy for more than a second, without it getting ruined.'
Pandemic and Pandemonium: A Doctor on India’s Kafkaesque Medical Reality
Using irony, satire and black humour, a doctor at a COVID-19 fever clinic breaks down the bureaucratic lunacy that plagues the Indian system.
Of Privilege and Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus
My time in self-quarantine has starkly increased my awareness about both myself as well as the world I live in.
Why Online Examinations Make For Unfair Testing
Education should be allowed to remain democratic no matter how great the crisis.
The Rooftop News Channel
In this story, translated from Hindi to English, the author narrates how the highlight of her day comes at 5 pm when a group of women step onto their …