I am a working mother, who has run businesses from home for a while. Except now, everyone is doing it and I find my space taken over. The schools of my six-year-old and two-year-old have introduced classes on Zoom. This means I have to make sure they have food in their little tummies by 9.30 am and I have their online class set up ready in two separate rooms. And yes, I'm sharing my laptop with them. I have to toggle my calendar with my husband's on our many calls and take charge of more than my share of this household.

I wait for quiet time, and for someone to explain to me why the need for us all to zip, zap, Zoom during a global health crisis. Do our children, any child below Class X, need extra classes? What do we imagine will happen if they don't keep pace with the syllabus for a few weeks? What harm can an extra month of holiday do? And no, the onus is not just on school administration and teachers, but parents too. One of them asked whether full school days were a likelihood instead of "just two classes".