In Shromona Das's The Summer of Maximum Learning, you see that spilt milk is worth crying about in this country. A page shows a woman declaring to her social media followers that she is cooking for the first time during the lockdown; a dish that requires a litre of milk. She stirs it in a vessel. Das then makes that milk spill out onto a road at Ram Bagh Chauraha in Agra, where a poor man and four dogs quench their thirst.

We all know that woman — it could be one of us, baking banana bread, making Dalgona coffee and whatnot. What happened in Ram Bagh Chauraha is not far from reality either. Das has drawn from an incident that happened in April, summing up how the pandemic has become anything but the 'great equaliser'.