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Audiences Lost and Found

Lhendup G Bhutia

Stars and other performers are changing the nature of online shows to retain their fans

Home is Nowhere

Social distancing and staying indoors are not an option for thousands of homeless living in Delhi. Nandini Nair meets them as they try to stave off hunger and disease

A Nurse’s Life

Amita Shah

The worlds she carries within and without the PPE kit

The Mind in Isolation

Madhavankutty Pillai

What experiences of silent retreat meditators and astronauts say about the brain during lockdown

A Prayer for Boris

Roderick Matthews

The pandemic too shall pass, but it will leave the UK with an experience comparable only to the two World Wars

House of Misery

Ullekh NP

Domestic abuse sees a sharp rise in the time of the Covid-19 lockdown

History After Covid-19

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The making of a new global order

In our collective suffering and neurosis, we have become one

Rahul Pandita

A lockdown journal

The Longest Walk Home

Nandini Nair

Sickness may be a great leveller but the pandemic reveals how some lives are more equal than others. Nandini Nair captures the stranded migrant labourers’ struggle for home