Covid Tales
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Young Minds

By Alexandra Giust
The world has been dealing with COVID-19 for two years now. Late summer and into the Fall of 2021, the spread of the virus had gone down due to the various vaccines that were introduced. I was hopeful and excited to finally start in person learning since starting high school during the pandemic was challenging […]
By Charelle Fon
The modern world is so fast-paced and with innovations happening each day, it gets faster and busier. But when the pandemic hit, everything came to a grinding halt. Businesses, schools, and most of the world shut down. Suddenly, we were given all of this free time. We were forced to slow down our lives and […]
By Julia De Leon
We have heard it time and time again: “these are unprecedented times”. And through these truly extraordinary times, we have been forced to become innovators and learners to new practices. Suddenly shopping, travelling, and educating - activities of our everyday lives - became an estranged routine. But what about our hobbies, ambitions and passions? For […]
By Ananya Agarwal
At the start of the pandemic, both my friends and I were overjoyed at the thought of graduating  10th grade without having to sit for our IGCSE board exams. In that enthusiasm, we overlooked the boredom that was to follow in a couple of months. I didn’t realise what it would mean to go from […]
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Soul Food

By Geetanjali Dogra Mehta
It all started with us trying to plan our weekly menu and organise recipes. But it led us to discovering many forgotten family recipes. Covid had put us into what the Government here in Singapore called a “Circuit Breaker”, in other words a lockdown. We could only go out for groceries, essential services and walks […]
By Vinita Chawla
When in doubt, pull them out. The recipe books I mean. When in pain, go down culinary lane. You are sure to hit a sweet spot and discover that the Sun still rises from the East and the gentle rain still brings succour. In my world, nothing succeeds like soufflé (not that I have been […]
By Ranjana Rebelo Monteiro
Ting-a-ling-a-ling….my phone buzzed. It was my daughter. There was fear in her voice. She thought she had contracted chicken pox.  “You’re vaccinated”, I reassured her. The varicella virus had attacked both her roomies a few days earlier. It was this unfounded speculation that nudged her to the safety of my house.  She was to stay […]
By Darab Nagarwalla
This is the story of the birth of a cauliflower-crust pizza. My wife Nazneen and I had chosen to close the chapter on our well-established lives for the last twenty-plus years working at a residential school in Landour, Mussoorie, and move to Pune to help with the care of an elderly parent. The lockdown hit […]
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