To the person who sang “Lal lal hothon pe gori kiska naam hai” to Juhi Chawla during the online hearing of her 5G petition in the Delhi High Court: thank you.

For months we have been living life locked in at so many levels. Cooped up at home, our eyes are trained on the small boxes of our screens, where we appear to each other inside small boxes. We repress our longing for hugs and faltugiri with friends. These last heartbreaking weeks, we’ve felt hemmed in by sadness and helplessness. How can we comfort the hurting, how much can we help in a failing system? Our efforts feel feeble. We feel guilty and unentitled to pleasure, when so many are suffering around us, because yes, our days are hard, but theirs are so much harder.