The story revolves around a courtesan named Kalavati in Pravaraputra, modern day Srinagar who is in distress as her guardian (also her grandmother) is dead, and as a result, her business is suffering.
My experience of what it feels like getting infected with COVID-19 during the brutal second wave in India.
Contrary to lifestyle magazines, self-love is more than just bubble bath and face masks. Here is how to practice self-love everyday.
Its a collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry taken from around a thirty-six period of Cavafy’s life which also explains the longing in some of the poems.
As I turn 25, I feel that I am the person now who I wanted to be when I was younger Turning 25 is a milestone. It’s when you’re a quarter of a century old. It’s when you’re no longer too young nor too old for the world. It’s when you still have so much …
Set in post World-War 2 Japan, Yukio Mishima’s novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a disturbing yet compelling read.
Society is always telling us to hustle, so much that we wear being busy as a badge of honor. But sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to rest.
Quarantine Diaries from different parts of the world showing a glimpse of the lockdown in their country and how they have been coping with it.
I named the album #dirumahaja; it’s a hashtag Indonesians use to encourage people to just stay at home (di rumah aja = just stay/be at home).
A short image of what Pakistan is facing and tips to take care of your mental health during the pandemic.
No one could’ve predicted that we would be living under strict regulations to stay indoors for such an extended period. 2020 – this was supposed to be our year.
As an essential worker who relies on public transit it is terrifying. We need to be more aware of the consequences and not try to rush reopening.
When they said on the morning news that we had our first case of covid-19 up high in Finland. I was not afraid, because it was still so far away.
The lockdown was announced in my neck of the woods on a windy Wednesday evening on March 11. It started out as a regular day with no premonition of the challenging times coming our way.
But since this lock-down started, I’ve been dreaming and dreaming. And I believe that everything happened lately was a sign to me to go fulfil my dreams!
I vividly remember the day my government announced that Luzon was going to be put under lockdown or community quarantine as they put it.
I hail from the Pearl of Africa, our first case was detected on the night of 22nd March and the next morning I had to head straight home back from school.
Covid-19 didn’t really start hitting the United States until the middle of March. There were a few cities that had started seeing outbreaks, but it certainly wasn’t nationwide yet. Everything escalated very quickly.
Isolation has really impacted our lives in a sense of bringing this new human into the world, and she doesn’t understand what world she is living in now. A new mother shares her lockdown story from Australia.
Compared to most other countries in Europe, the UK had the softest restrictions. This is the current state of lockdown in the UK.