Lockdown Diaries Nominee#12- A Personal journey of finding beauty and order in Chaos By Hillary Simpson
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#12- A Personal journey of finding beauty and order in Chaos By Hillary Simpson

Reading Time: 3 minutes           Speed! Speed! Speed! When people ask me to describe my life, I often think of speed. I imagine my life as a fast track race, and all I do every day is accelerating with an intense speed approaching the finish line. For a goal-driven person, this sounds like the ideal…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#10- Bliss In Absolute Chaos by Aparna Chowdhury
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#10- Bliss In Absolute Chaos by Aparna Chowdhury

Reading Time: 3 minutes Coronavirus pandemic has brought in unforeseen changes. It has taken us a while to come to terms with this sudden change. Most of us are still struggling. My initial reaction was bewilderment and a sense of acute restlessness. But then it changed, for the better….. Yet in these trying times, a pigeon chose my balcony…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#8- Revisiting my old self by Himangi Varshney
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#8- Revisiting my old self by Himangi Varshney

Reading Time: 3 minutes   “This life is like a train ride; the only difference being it has no stops. It just keeps on running, one thing after another keeps on happening, decisions are all taken in haste, and I no longer know if those decisions were right or not.” This lockdown made me revisit many old things, one…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#7- Lockdown Diaries by Abhinav Ghosh
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#7- Lockdown Diaries by Abhinav Ghosh

Reading Time: 3 minutes The last few months have been a ‘reset’ button for all of us. For the first time in several decades, has the entire world been driven to a single point of attention – the Coronavirus. Witnessing something like this for the first time in my life, the immediate reaction was to question the current state…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#5- In the depths of winter, I found, there lay in me, an invincible summer By Preeti Ojha
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#5- In the depths of winter, I found, there lay in me, an invincible summer By Preeti Ojha

Reading Time: 2 minutes         We all have heard of the phrase ‘silent killer’. But, it was not until the draconian Coronavirus started spreading its tentacles, did we come to know that ‘invisible killers’ also exist. Of course, a great deal of research has been on into pathogenicity and its manifestations in the form of microbial…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#4- Starter to a Gearless Life by Karan Veera
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#4- Starter to a Gearless Life by Karan Veera

Reading Time: 2 minutes Joints are aching. Head is always heavy these days. The lower back is giving up in the mornings, making me feels like its gonna break. Sleep is uncertain. Day by day, I am deteriorating physically. It’s been 40 days since the lockdown, possibility of an extension due to the severity of coronavirus pandemic. Eyes are…