Lockdown InequalityPodcast: Mitigating the Unequal Impact of Lockdown In India As thousands of migrant labourers took to the streets in Bandra, Mumbai yesterday, as they had earlier in Delhi and Surat, it became impossible to ignore the harsh reality of this lockdown, and its crushing impact... By Shrishti Malhotra
Lockdown 2.0Smog in Delhi Leads to Pandemic‑Like Lockdown for a Week ...threat is so huge that in addition to suspending schools and shutting down offices — things we’ve begun to associate with the pandemic-induced lockdown — residents of the city have... By Devrupa Rakshit
portraits of digital intimacyHow a Lockdown Love Story Evolved Entirely Online In this 10-part series, we explore how Indians are embracing digital connections under the Covid19 lockdown in the absence of in-person intimacy. Here, 24-year-old Sharan and 23-year-old Tanvi break down... By The Swaddle Team
Financial CrisisPrivate Schools Can’t Charge Students for Facilities Unused Under Lockdown: SC Private schools cannot profit off providing education, and so, shouldn’t charge students for use of on-campus facilities that remained closed, and unused, under lockdown, the Supreme Court ruled this week.... By Devrupa Rakshit
Cascading EffectWomen’s Representation in Art, Music Reduced Under Lockdown Due to Digital Divide: UNESCO ...It found that the shift to digital domains during the lockdown worsened the pre-existing gender inequalities in fields like art and music — due to disparities in access to the... By Devrupa Rakshit
Who Is The BossThis Is My Family: A Boss And An Employee Living Together During Lockdown ...taken to working from home, we continued to visit the site for as long as it was allowed but ultimately, they announced a two-week complete lockdown which kept getting extended.... By Anubhuti Matta
podcastRespectfully Disagree: Has Lockdown Made Us Reconsider the Work From Home Fantasy? ...differ on. In this edition of Remote Respectfully Disagree, the team talks about the national work from home experiment during lockdown, and whether it will impact our work culture long-term.... By The Swaddle Team
Children At Risk117 Million+ Children May Miss Immunization Due to Covid19 Lockdown ...India, routine immunization programs have come to halt in areas like Jharkhand, due to the nationwide lockdown. In countries with strict lockdowns like Uganda, a 60-80% drop in the number... By Aditi Murti
Exotic JoeThe Buzz Cut: Why ‘Tiger King’ Appealed to Us Under Covid19 Lockdown ...Internet by storm, came at the perfect time, just as most of the world was going into lockdown. As people dealt with the bizarre, sudden spread of the coronavirus pandemic,... By Rajvi Desai
One More Corona PleaseWhy is Lockdown Boredom Pushing People to Smoke, Drink and Snack More? ...wanting to distract themselves from the mundane reality of constantly staying at home. In addition, the lockdown has completely disrupted normal routines, leading to many changes in people’s snack and... By Devrupa Rakshit
Those Were The DaysWhy Lockdown Has Us Doing Things We Loved As Children ...fear, anxiety, and stress.” While the lockdown has allowed some the opportunity to learn something new, for many others like Thomas and Dugar, revisiting their childhood, or things that remind... By Anubhuti Matta
Work Re-culturedWork, Re‑cultured: The Marketing Exec Who Started a Food Business During Lockdown ...was all going well until lockdown happened; we lost a couple of clients. Over a Zoom call, we all lost our jobs. My husband’s garment business also wasn’t doing as... By The Swaddle Team
Same But DifferentWoe Is Me! “My Feelings About My Body Changed During the Lockdown. How Do I Learn to Love It Again?” ...lost a few in lockdown. Throughout this journey, I went from hating my body to liking it — although I’m still six kgs far from my goal weight. However, no... By The Swaddle Team
Hang OnThe Buzz Cut: All the Feel‑Good Covid19 Stories to Get You Through the Lockdown In The Buzz Cut, we bring you a round-up of all the weird, controversial, and wonderful stories we’ve been reading all week. The Covid19 pandemic has gifted us with many... By Rajvi Desai
Rice Rice Baby‘Rice ATMs’ Across Vietnam Are Feeding People Amid Covid19 Lockdown ...Public Areas to Contaminate Them As economies around the world tank due to social and economic halts following Covid19 lockdowns, half a billion people around the world — especially informal... By Devrupa Rakshit
Access Over MeritA 14‑Year Old Girl’s Suicide Reveals How Lockdown Will Widen the Education Gap Among Children A 14-year-old girl’s death in Kerala was caused by a lack of access to online learning. The grotesqueness of this statement is highly telling of how little the Indian education... By Aditi Murti
podcastRespectfully Disagree: Has the Lockdown Made Celebrities More #Relatable? ...and bartan to Gal Gadot posting an embarrassing “Imagine” celebrity montage, has the coronavirus pandemic and the national lockdowns that have followed in its wake made celebrities more relatable, or... By The Swaddle Team
Fake ResponsibilityThe Buzz Cut: As People Tire of Lockdown, Kim K Exemplifies the ‘Performative Quarantine’ Phenomenon ...lockdowns are lifting, and people all around the world are free to live by their own definitions of safety, an important question to consider is: what is the difference between... By Rajvi Desai
