New Delhi: In the Khan household in Delhi’s Nizammuddin Basti, 10:30am has attained special significance since India went into lockdown in March.
When the WhatsApp notification pings, Sahil, 14, runs down with his mother’s phone to the ground floor, where his father, mother, grandmother and two younger siblings eagerly wait for him.
Sahil makes space for himself in the middle and plays the WhatsApp audio message. “To fight corona, wash your hands properly, don’t step out of the house till necessary…," a female voice announces a series of precautions to be taken to fight coronavirus, in Hinglish.