“Book Descriptions: Holi 2020. Something is in the air—something sinister. But nobody has figured it out. In such circumstances, a man from Mumbai, living there with his wife and two school-going kids, goes on a vacation to Mahabaleshwar. But he is asked to vacate the resort, and, ultimately, lock himself down in his small apartment. The forced closure leads to a nervous excitement—only three weeks, after all. The kitchen smells of koftas and pulao, initially, before shifting to bread-and-butter breakfast; from Ramayan to binging on Netflix; from getting rations from the local kirana store to feeling elated seeing big circles being painted outside the liquor shop; from escaping getting caught in traffic to impressing clients in a t-shirt and a lungi on video calls—only to miss meeting the clients in person—lockdown was an unwelcome, tough ask. But, like that man in the small Mumbai flat, we knew—or were forced to learn—how to make lemonade when life threw lemons at us. As author Krishan Iyer says in The Morning Star: When -ve became +ve, with the governments having no option but to ‘lock’, ‘unlock’ and then ‘lock’ again, depending on whether the cases rose or fell, there was little option but for the people to become atmanirbhar. It means self-reliant. It could also mean: ‘You are on your own’.” DRIVE
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