Baalbiti is an attempt to record the lived experiences of children over different phases of the lockdown starting from the end of March 2020
New Delhi: Amid news of rising Covid-19 cases, Mohammad Gufran is busy studying for his Class X pre-board exams in a small room that he calls home in a resettlement colony in northeast Delhi’s Sunder Nagri. He dreads the very thought of a fresh lockdown as it brings back suffocating memories of being confined in a room with his entire family — parents and three older siblings. A 20-sqmetre dwelling is all that they have and when the door is closed at night some have to take refuge on a patch of the roof since there isn’t enough space for all in the room.
Gufran vividly describes how social distancing in that room at the peak of the pandemic in March-April last year was an impossible task. When his sisters developed a cough, the family members had no space to spare for quarantining themselves and chose to sit in corners of the same room. His father, who makes a living by selling daily-need household items, would measure the distance between the members and assign corners to each.
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