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The Hindu
The Hindu
Lifestyle
Saraswathy Nagarajan

“We are so caught up with what’s broken that we forget to celebrate what’s working,” says author Anjana Menon

The room with a view that kept Anjana Menon in touch with the world gave the mediaperson and writer a different perspective to see Nature and the people around her. Quarantined in her parents’ house during the lockdown in Kerala in 2020, it was the ordinariness of everyday life that became extraordinary for Anjana.

At her home in Thrissur, she saw two worlds mingle, an old way of life gradually, and, mostly gracefully, giving way to a new, brisker but still caring community.

Portrait of a lockdown

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