Here is your Sunday reading list
We are each quarantined in our own small spaces of survival or mourning, divided from each other by this cruel disease. Divided also from a sense of calm continuity, or of time unfolding in a predictable way, we now uncertainly await the future with masks on our faces.
We are still creatures of nature, no matter how much we fiddle with our genes and try and insert robots into our systems.
In the midst of a pandemic that levels all — the chosen and the downtrodden — many of us fantasise about a return to a golden, simple past, but that leapfrogs over the reality of caste
In his lockdown diary, Vijay Singh notes his daily 8 pm ritual: applause for healthcare workers, as his penthouse neighbour plays music, as well as how the pandemic snatched away the life and dreams of a fellow Indian in Paris
Here is your Sunday reading list
Some illnesses are little more than anecdotes. Others grow into parables and allegories, and some become epics.
A naval officer on contemplating life and finding an ally in forgetfulness when he sailed around the world alone
‘Quarantine cooking’ isn’t just about getting creative with food, but also about learning to cook when you only have yourself to feed.
The most fundamental change will be in perceptions of technology and technological competence.
The veteran actor on the dedication, understanding of life and compassion that powered Irrfan Khan’s tremendous talent
Here is your Sunday reading list
The lockdown has hit the publishers where it hurts the most — by cutting off all online and offline sale, distribution and revenue options
The central events of Priya Balasubramaniam’s book play out during the socio-political churn in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition in Bengaluru
The walled-in life to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has led to a spike in mental-health issues. From patients regressing in their treatment to people with no prior history finding themselves unable to cope with the uncertainty, notes from a world at unease
In the time of COVID-19, the trending of #foodporn points to a glaring inequality
How hard housework has been for all of us in lockdown is exactly equal to our belief that the people who generally do it for us do absolutely no work.
Take parenting lessons from COVID-19 and give the baby boomers a taste of their medicine: repeat yourself since children don’t listen always
How to look after your mind and body in this season of disquiet.
Here is what you should be reading this Sunday.
Coping with a strange uneasy feeling that looms large in the days of self-isolation, away from home, is the only recourse.
‘I remember on the sixth day of my quarantine, I was feeling out of breath. I kept telling myself it will get better and, slowly, it did,’ says Iranian discus thrower Ehsan Haddadi
COVID-19 pandemic is giving rise to new feelings and experiences. Here’s a list of proposed words for new coinages to articulate them
This enhanced sense of urban alienation has made many turn to American artist Edward Hopper, whose depictions of mid-century America often figure empty rooms and cities that frame a lone human, looking out of windows, lost in a private soliloquy.
Staying home is premised on the assumption that a home is a safe place. We know that for one out of three women (at least), it is not.






