Writing letters to his son is second nature to Aloke Kumar, associate professor at IIM Calcutta. Their rooms at his Kolkata home are just a few feet apart, and the two make it a point to spend quality time daily. Yet, it's the letters where Kumar is really able to open up, and have deeper and meaningful conversation with his son. The lockdown necessitated it more than ever. Holed in at home for the first time in many years, and having to settle for online classes with his students over an airy and more engaging classroom, Kumar was experiencing a multitude of emotions. And so, on June 19, three months into the lockdown, he slipped in a letter under the door of his son's room. The letter was both confessional and reflective, recalls Kumar. "There was this sudden human pause. We were all overwhelmed. Online teaching was a new learning experience for me, too. I wanted to share my anxieties with my son, and how much of it is going to continue in the future, and the need for us to be prepared for the new world order," he says, while speaking about the contents of the letter. Writing it, he says, made him feel like he was unburdening himself, and at the same time, documenting an important time in history that both he and his 24-year-son were now part of. "I wanted it to be a keepsake. Something, he could go back to, and remember when all is okay."