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Lock-down diary

Pandemic, We all were introduced to this word through our history books. A global pandemic or an epidemic that appears to human life as a hungry beast, ruining everything under its influence. Spanish Flu, or Cholera all were just a mere chapter of our history book with some really disturbing images of the victims that we always turned over in a hurry. Every time, that we arrived at a chapter like that. Other than the page of history book another place that introduced me with this terrible picture of an epidemic was my Bengali literature book. When I was on the fifth standard. We had this story set on the backdrop of the Cholera Epidemic. And trust me I would cringe every time I had to learn that. While growing up, I read about Plague, again on my history book and the destruction that followed as a result of it in Kolkata.  But, that was it. The epidemic was just an ugly and bitter chapter of history for me. At times which would make me cringe or will make my heart beat loude