The art of just being
India, the world's largest democracy, went into lockdown due to the Corona scare. I, a working mother of 2 boys and seemingly living the perfect life suddenly felt like I got the summer vacation I always wanted. Now, almost 2 weeks into the quarantine, this surely doesn't seem like a summer vacation. First, because there's no nani's house or visiting cousins. Second, because there's no endless supply of sharbat and maggi and icecream that used to define our holidays - majorly because I am on a diet. There are no trips - to the market or elsewhere and there are none of the trappings of a vacation. Heck, my mom's not here too. This is, by all means, a unique situation. A situation that takes us out of our multiple lives - at the office, at a vacation, at a coffee shop, at a meeting or at xyz. Today, we are not vacationers or people with jobs or people with a social life. We just are. Just existing, just taking each day as it comes. Just parents looking a...