Home Truths

The virus has entered the family again. My eldest co-sister is down with it and so may be my mother-in-law. Situation in their village and around is very serious this time. It's obviously a different ball game. The next few days will be filled with tension. 

We're going to Lalbagh today. Today because we want to avoid possible weekend crowd. Because we don't know when we can go next. It's been more than a year already. 

My grandmother is recovering from surgery, don't know how my mother is doing, my sister-in-law and her husband, my brother-in-law and his wife are Covid positive, my sister's mother-in-law has undergone biopsy for a suspected malignancy in her uterus, my best friend is depressed and another is MIA. If I think of all this, a bowl of gulab jamuns looks weird, dosa seems tasteless and Lalbagh colourless. But then I guess there's all the more reason to do all these things now, with urgency. And yes, my mother-in-law has tested negative :-)