Lockdown Diaries Nominee#49 Lockdown Diaries-  Ayushi Sahare
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#49 Lockdown Diaries- Ayushi Sahare

Reading Time: 3 minutes The time when dalgona was the absolute trend!! Looks pleasing right?! It took me cons to whisk the coffee and make it the right consistency But in the end it was totally worth it . Uncertainty about the future. This thought has run through my mind millions of the time. I choose to try out…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#47 The Last Sunset-  Jainee Shah
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#47 The Last Sunset- Jainee Shah

Reading Time: 3 minutes An ear-piercing sound broke the little sleep, I had gotten. Groggily, I sat up and made my way to the washroom. After quick shower, I jumped into yesterday’s jeans and was out of the door. The day had begun. I was at the speed of 50km/hour, hands full of multiple tasks until I fell asleep…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#46 My Typical Quarantine Routine- Dixon Pulikkathara Johnson
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#46 My Typical Quarantine Routine- Dixon Pulikkathara Johnson

Reading Time: 4 minutes Putting an end to my invocation queuing in succession are the eerie hours of quivering night into the boughs of which I perch in search of aesthetic beauty of dissimilar genre. Unless awaken by morning dream or once in a blue moon rooster crowing, it’s the midnight set alarm intrudes my cozy repose. Very soon…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#45 Pandemic Diaries 2.0- JiaXin Lee
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#45 Pandemic Diaries 2.0- JiaXin Lee

Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic has started so abruptly, by just a blink of an eye, the world has been reshuffled, a whole new game staring over again. As the pandemic sleeks beyond us — throughout the globe, cities are being locked down, confining everyone in their homes. Four months of lockdown, a hundred and twenty-one days, totally…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#43 Of Relationships and Love- Ishita Shreshtha
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#43 Of Relationships and Love- Ishita Shreshtha

Reading Time: 3 minutes It is often too hard to believe how our lives can be changed in the split of a second. The pandemic has been one such change in everybody’s lives and I think we would unanimously agree that this change hasn’t brought any good. My emotions have risen and fallen like the tides in the last…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#42 Corona Warriors- Soumyadeep Khan
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#42 Corona Warriors- Soumyadeep Khan

Reading Time: 1 minute Death is an intriguing affair, No one knows what it bears. We all roam carrying a facade, Of rich and poor running roughshod. Now I ponder staring at the star, What will cease this self-created war. Whom to blame or be flawed? This is something hoisted by one’s own petard. Holding on to a threshold…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#41 Lockdown Diaries By Vanshika Bansal
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#41 Lockdown Diaries By Vanshika Bansal

Reading Time: 2 minutes “I can’t wait to get out of school,” we all exclaimed. Little did we know how we were going to crave to go back there. To spend another day complaining about our teachers. To spend another lunch break attacking each other’s lunch boxes. To spend another period bunking just to talk to our friends. To…

Lockdown Diaries Nominee#40 Ephemeral By Kirsten Elyse Melo Ongkeko
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Lockdown Diaries Nominee#40 Ephemeral By Kirsten Elyse Melo Ongkeko

Reading Time: 2 minutes Terrifying, isn’t it? The thought that a moment is merely fleeting. The idea that this is all it ever will be. A moment. An improvised fragment of spoken word that cannot be recalled from the depths of a memory. Why must I be burdened by having no souvenir other than a husk of enchantment that…