Sanchari Bhattacharyya (Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India)
In the midst of unrelenting statistics of positive cases and death tolls while the prospect of a better future seemed shrinking into a morose foreboding, my solitary confinement kept me engrossed in an unyielding dialogue between my emotional self and its rational counterpart. I felt semantically challenged in the “new normal”: fresh buzzwords like lockdown and quarantine had the vibes of arrested freedom under centralised surveillance; distancing and isolation still sounded repugnant, but became compelling practices; whereas positive embodied trepidation.
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