NEW DELHI : What are young, talented and lockdown-battered professionals to do to keep their skills from rusting if the work involves close-touch or group activity?
Start teaching online.That’s what a range of professionals—from chefs, fitness trainers, make-up artists to even stand-up comedians—are doing as gigs dry up in a physical world bogged down by distancing norms.Popular stand-up comic Aditi Mittal saw her closed-door events starting to dwindle in early March.
It was time to take the plunge online.After a month-and-a-half of “contemplating life", Mittal hit upon the idea of teaching how to make people laugh—live.