THIS NEW REALITY
PROVOKE Lifestyle|June 2020
FILMMAKER LATHA MENON REMINISCES THE BIRTHDAY OF HER DAUGHTER THAT WAS CELEBRATED DURING THE COVID-19 QUARANTINE, REMINDING US THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE ‘NEW NORMAL’
LATHA MENON
THIS NEW REALITY

The financial year ending March 31, 2020; and the new one starting April 1, 2020; does not augur well for the coming economic period. COVID-19 has made sure the adage ‘life is meaningless,’ is being borne through by all of the planet’s human species, especially for our fellow citizens – the migrants of India. To find meaning in these times, is possibly through finding it yourself, or the people you find yourself with, or with the one’s you’ve been together with, whosoever they may be.

The date March 31 bears significance to me personally too. It so happens to be my younger child’s birthday. And it fell on the day when her two-week self-quarantine period ended. She had returned from Kent abruptly, when the COVID virus issue caused realignment in educational institutions and classes went online overnight. The State government was tracking all travellers who came in midMarch, so we also had a COVID sticker, ‘do not enter,’ pasted on our exterior house wall. My regular house staff also decided not to enter till the sticker was removed. Hence, my daughter was eagerly looking forward to being together with all of us. We hadn’t interacted with her in person, ever since she had come back.

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