Co-VID? Co-DIV!

Co-VID? Co-DIVision! This work is inspired by the current times and the exasperated feelings surrounding quarantine and infection. The meekness and frailty of the woman in the couple who is infected with the virus and her partner's inability to help her at the time of crisis due to the need for distancing.

No one was spared the anxiety of a coronavirus forced lockdown, extended till May 3, that kept most of India behind closed doors, not corporate biggies in gilded mansions, not the middle class inside their homes and not part-time domestic workers in claustrophobic tenements.

That was the equaliser, but the inequalities also hit home almost immediately. As India went quiet and millions snuck into their homes to wait out the lockdown, migrant workers and daily wagers, stranded miles away from home, stared at an uncertain future without money, food or jobs.

All life was suspended. It was almost surreal.