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“The silence grew and ebbed like the pulsing movement of a dying heart. Francis put his hands on his head. Mine had crept their way up my body and cupped my mouth, preventing air from escaping. Tremors ran through all of us.”  

Through a melancholic narrative, Liam Cogan leaves his reader yearning for solace and rethinking about life, death, and friendships.

Narrated by Melvin Kamau.

This story is in collaboration with The Written Circle, a publishing and curation platform that works with young authors and publishes their work. To know more about them visit www.thewrittencircle.com. 

Literature has been a place of solace and if we probed deeper, we could, with its help, find a blueprint of how to endure the virus. Since epidemics are a familiar trope in the literary world, through a literary lens, we may come to understand the evolution of an epidemic and learn how to come to terms with it.

Abhinandan Sekhri is co-founder and CEO of media critique, news, and current affairs website Newslaundry. He is also co-founder of Small Screen, which produced award-winning shows like Highway On My Plate and OMG India. He worked for TV Today Network from 1995 to 1999 that made Newstrack and Aaj Tak. He was also the chief scriptwriter for the news-satire show Gustaakhi Maaf and The Great Indian Tamsha on NDTV. He regularly delivers lectures and hosts panel discussions on journalism, Right to Information, along with the importance and independence of media. In this interview with Divanshu Sethi, he discusses the problems in the media ecosystem, the role of identity in media organisations, and the future of media in a post-COVID-19 world.