Apart from reflecting on the idiotic and dangerous meet of the Tabligi Jamat meet in Nizamuddin, which has not only put the larger Indian community to the risk of COVID-19 infection but given fresh fodder to the hate brigade to vilify the entire Muslim community, the lockdown period has flooded the mind with a riot of thoughts.
While the taali-thali-candle-torch phenomenon might be needed for a huge mass of locked-in populace, the heart and the mind goes out to the tens of lakhs of people, particularly migrant workers, who were left high and dry by the government’s six-hour notice to get back to their homes.
Under home quarantine myself till April 17, as I returned from Mexico city via Dubai on an Emirates flight on March 18, I have never felt luckier… to be able to take long morning walks on the terrace of my house; to watch from there the small pomegranate tree burst into a flowering frenzy, to see the many parrots flying past; and, above all, to find the karuveppilai (curry leaves) plant bloom like never before.
Incredible generosity
This story is from the April 07, 2020 edition of The Hindu Business Line.
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