‘Normalcy’ of these children turns upside down

Is grieving the new normal? With a dramatic increase in mortality rate in India, these Muslim boys pray as they sit beside the grave of a relative who dies of Covid-19, New Delhi.

For some it is difficult to play outside, for others locked up cities are the new playgrounds. Is it a win? A little boy plays with his bat on a railway track in Mumbai.

Surplus is what is helping everyone sustain. What about those in deficit? A young girl stands (New Delhi) waiting for hours to cross the border and return to her home in Uttar Pradesh.

So close, yet so far apart. Children of a migrant worker rest in a temporary abode made out of a sports complex in New Delhi during the 21-day nation-wide lockdown.

Hysteria around Covid-19 doesn’t keep the lives of young ones at halt. A girl is splashed with colored water during Holi celebrations, Chennai.

A young boy hiding in an alley while the people around him get checked for Covid-19 by Medical officers, Mumbai. Seems like swab tests are going to be the new dental checkups for children.

Temperature checks and Covid tests need some getting used to. A kid stands erect while getting checked by health care workers in a slum in Mumbai.

Temples of education turn into centers for Coronavirus testing in New Delhi where medical workers can be seeing wearing the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Who thought that physical barriers like the ones used while treating patients from Chernobyl tragedy would become an imperative layer between people? A girl being swab-tested in a local center in New Delhi.

Unlike school vacations, kids do not have an idea of the upper limit of lockdown. A boy sits on a bucket mounted at the junction between home and ‘outside’, New Delhi.