Little stories - from the year goneby

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2020 was a year that none of us would forget in our lifetime. A year which made the world stop, quite literally. Absolutely crazy time which threw every system, every bit of regularity there is to life and every relation out of order. Having been caught by surprise, of course, everyone panicked and made frivolous attempts to make sense out of the situation. The ridiculously long time of being confined to one’s own house drew the entire race crazy, because by definition, humans are social animals and the socializing aspect was lost.

This got me thinking, how innate it is for us to socialize (even for introverts), the basic urge to meet varied people and communicate is what makes us, US! While a few, staying away from their families discovered how it is getting back home; the ones working on frontline during this pandemic realized how it is being away from family, even after being home. A lot of us valued physical touch even more and how comforting even a simple hug, handshake, pat on the back is when you meet someone was highlighted all the more.

All this while a lot of stories brewed up; experienced quite the humble and no fuss nature of section of people whom we call unskilled labourer which includes everyone from house-help to sweeper (I refuse to call them kachrawala or other derogatory terms) working tirelessly; Neighbours extending help by providing meals and medicine to a covid stricken family; singletons learning to manage house as well work while leaving aloof in a different city.

Quite a lot of people that I know of got married and proved that the pandemic can wait (but our parents can’t). A lot of people fell out of relationship, while many got together, quite miraculously at that. Many friend entrepreneurs that I know suffered heavy losses in their business, but found ways to navigate and bounced back gradually, one step at a time. Lost a few people as well, close and far, to this monstrosity and saw a few battling hard to fight other allied vices which came up with it and made me wish for one last good conversation with them.

Overall, this definitely has been a very excruciatingly painful struggle, just to stay alive and keep your family safe. But I also admire the resilience I saw in every individual to pull this through and go beyond call of duty for the larger good. It indeed restores my faith in India as a country of complex myriads, every single unique aspect which goes on to accommodate the other and create this magical fabric of unity in diversity and humanity. While a lot of countries showed semblance of order but went berserk on the extension of lockdowns and revolted, I found the world’s second largest populated country acting civilized and sane, something which a lot of highly affluent and developed nations failed to. I’m sure there are many such small and grand stories out there, which won’t make it to the headlines of any news channel, but shall continue to do the best what they’ve been doing all this while, work in silence!

 

All these little stories could just be picturized into one story, the way Indian Ocean captures its essence

 

Des mera rangrez ye babu,

Ghat ghat yaha ghatta jadu

 

India sir yeh cheez dhurandhar,

Jeb daliddar, dil hai samandar

 

 

Comments

  1. deeps29 January 2021 at 22:21

    Very beautifully written as always. The emotions and feelings are so relatable that it took me back to lockdown days. God bless you my dear

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