Lockdown Stories  (English, Paperback, Priya Rajaram)

The pandemic has affected each of us in ways we didn't imagine, and in the absence of normalcy, we have all been forced to look inward - into us, our lives and our close relationships. It is unfortunately, the one big crisis to unite the whole world together, the first after the Second World War. Each of us carries scars from the pandemic. This collection of short stories is of people who lived, loved and lost during this time. While some of us became closer to people in our lives, perhaps more of us drifted away. The stories talk about longing for a natural, normal world and memories and growing-up-wounds that became raw during the forced stay at home. Each of the protagonists in the book deal with a phase in their lives, the nucleus of which is the pandemic and the lockdown.