Photograph by PTI, Apoorva Salkade, Sandipan Chatterjee
The Lockdown
When the microscopic rider rode into town, scythe at the ready, all a trembling humanity could do was to retire to its safest refuge. In nation after nation, lights went out on public life. In the US, as if in a grim nod to history, the most popular exhortation of the day was waved from an aircraft not far removed in vintage from 1918-20, when the Covid pandemic’s true forebear scorched the world. In Mumbai, the Chhatrapati Shivaji train terminus presented a face never seen before:...
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