There has been an uptick in consumption of playlists around self-help, wellness and yoga over the past few weeks@ NEW DELHI : After putting her two toddlers to sleep, Shweta Khandelwal, 33, spends an hour every night with meditation app Calm to manage the anxiety she feels about a rapidly-spreading virus that’s infected more than 3 million people worldwide. “I couldn’t sleep during the first week of the lockdown because I kept worrying about my kids," says Khandelwal, who quit her career in jewellery design five years ago to care for her children.
The soothing voice of the woman in the app “makes me feel as if everything’s going to be okay." There’s much talk about how the novel coronavirus will create a new normal for us in the future,