UNDER CORONA’S INFLUENCE

For the first few weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, Karuna Ezara Parikh barely posted anything on her Instagram account. She didn’t feel like creating content about things that did not resonate with her. But then she started writing about poetry and books. “With the news reaching a fresh heaving pitch of insanity, death count and injustice recently, I felt the need to jump into something otherworldly,” she posted one day to her 75,000 followers. The text accompanied a photograph of her collector’s set of . “We may