With gigs and tours getting cancelled left, right and centre as precautionary measures due to coronavirus, artistes have been left high and dry, when it comes to their source of income. But the show must go on, and Anurag Naidu, a jazz pianist in the city, has converted all his classes into Skype lessons for the next two weeks. "The first thing, in a situation like this is, you need to know your clientele. It has to be someone who can afford to continue paying you, only then would conducting online classes be a sensible option. On the flipside, the work-from-home situation means that now parents can also sit for classes," says Naidu, who has had some experience teaching kids online when he was living in Paris and taking classes for students in India via Skype. But that was during a much more stable environment, he points out, adding, "It's completely uncharted territory for all of us, especially since we don't know how long this will continue. This situation is also about privilege. Because there are many who don't even have enough money to keep them going for six days."

Shreya Bhattacharya