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When we meet socially, what's going to happen in our heads will we confidently shake each other's hands, will we refrain from the bear hug? If the person next to us has a cough, will social distancing take on new meaning?

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Illustration/Uday Mohite

Illustration/Uday Mohite

Rahul da CunhaAnd so, we're closing in on a month of the lockdown. There is much I've thought about personally. How I'd like to be post the Coronavirus period. More patient, more compassionate, more grateful, a reminder that life is short. And there's much I've pondered about philosophically—where are we headed both in that larger spiritual sense and on a smaller day-to-day level. It's been a great leveller, this virus, flattened the curve, so to speak, in more ways than one.

The Coronavirus has shut us all down, universally. It doesn't matter who you are, the fact is you're sealed in, stuck inside your own private lockdown, imprisoned, whether you see it as isolation or inspiration, that's your perspective. "Dude, I'm getting fried", "I love my kids but 24x7 with them, can get trying", it's all about being stuck indoors.

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