HAD this actually been a holiday, I would have produced some work," says photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri, on the phone from his Thane residence. Like everyone else in the country, whose profession is not an essential service, 48-year-old Chaudhuri has been locked down at home. And while, it isn't much different for him, in that he works from home otherwise too, not being able to step out has brought with it a sense of anxiety. "I had meant to get down to say, designing the book I planned to publish this year, on the clocks of Bombay. I wanted to line up the broader ideas and also polish up an essay I have been writing. But I haven't managed to do that to the extent I would have wanted to."

Chaudhuri says that a week or 10 days into the lockdown, he realised that social media was flooded with posts of people who were cooking and putting up photos of their creations. Or doodling. "I actually started feeling left out. I felt that my inspiration had dried up," he says, adding that he feels this despite having experienced periods when he has not produced much work.