The pan-India lockdown has disrupted people’s lives in many ways. Some have lost jobs, some have lost their lives trying to return home, some are unable to reach ageing parents or grandparents because of travel restrictions and fear of being virus-carriers Just after noon every day, Sharat Chandra and his family get together to mediate.
His mother-in-law and parents join in via Skype from Patna, each from their individual homes, and Chandra, in Bengaluru, starts the online streaming of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living class, on his laptop.
The same hour-long ritual repeats 7:30pm. This get-together, which includes Chandra’s wife and daughter, became another bullet point in the family’s to-do list after the nationwide lockdown in view