Dear Friends,
Senior journalist Soma Basu from The Hindu recently asked me to name a few books I was reading in these COVID times. Here is a brief mention including works by Hoshang Merchant and Manjul Bajaj.
Please see my selection here …
Tags: COVID-19, lockdown, Reading, The Hindu
Dear Friends,
Here is a short author interview by Amazon to go with the recent essay available as an e-Book: Bravado to Fear to Abandonment: Mental Health and the COVID-19 Lockdown
It tells us the reason I wrote the piece: ‘As someone who was clinically diagnosed with depression twice, Mr. Sandhu is no stranger to mental illness. He has also been a caregiver to mental illness sufferers, and that has prompted him to center his next story on the mental health aspects of the current pandemic.’
Please read more here …
Tags: Abandonment, Bravado, COVID-19, fear, India, lockdown, Mental Health
Dear Friends,
A few months back when the longest lockdown in the world was imposed on India, it disrupted all our lives, jobs, social securities. While the economic devastation would be a sphere many would look at from various angles, I was interested in how the lockdown affected our mindscapes. What does the lockdown augur for us as individuals and as a society? Here is my essay as an e-Book available on Kindle for India users. It will be available for foreign readers in the coming weeks.
Bravado to Fear to Abandonment: Mental Health and the COVID-19 Lockdown
Tags: Abandonment, Bravado, COVID-19, fear, India, lockdown, Mental Health