“I miss the day light... miss seeing the world outside,” admits Tanisha Saxena, talking on WhatsApp video. A Master’s student in English literature, Ms Saxena, 22, is sitting in the said room this afternoon. Ms Saxena lives with parents in a three-room flat in south Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar, and is obliged to share the room’s utility with her father, who runs a business of greeting cards. She feels that people these days, on social media, are constantly talking about doing productive things while confined to home. “I feel an unbearable pressure of doing things when I actually don’t feel like doing them at all.

Source: Hindustan Times July 17, 2020 23:18 UTC