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  Table of Contents 1: How COVID has brought families closer together 1.1         The #MasterChefIndia 1.2         Two makes a team 1.3         Reliving Childhood   An Indian family posing to have their picture clicked   Are you even family even family if you can’t recognize the family member coming down the stairs by just hearing their footsteps? Are you even family if all your trust doesn’t evaporate while looking for TV remote? Are you even siblings if your way of apologizing isn’t to simply start acting nice to each other?   A meme reliving few of the not-so-fond memories Many of such fond and some not-so-fond memories endear to these creatures we call family. There are the people who either help you hide a Money Heist level crime or won’t even let you breathe in their direction. They are those rocks that you lean on when the world comes crashing down on you. But as consistent as the word sounds, the relationship it represents isn’t so. Family dynamics
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The New Normal

  The New Normal This article has been published in TIMES OF INDIA When my college gave us a precautionary week off, I thought of it as a vacation. When India went into a lockdown I thought of it as an early end semester break. But when the lockdown extended I believed it to be the new normal.   The lockdown has tilted my world on its axis. I had a lot of plans for the summer. But as the saying goes, the best-made plans of men and mice always go awry. I believe mine did too.   The lockdown has affected my life in many ways. It has trapped me in my house. I cannot leave. Ironically it is like a long train journey; sit on your seat with your family around you with your gadgets in your hands. Go to the washroom whenever necessary then come back sit in your seat, rinse and repeat. I am a specimen in the zoo. I have every form of entertainment at my disposal, every luxury at my feet. I have everything I want, I just don’t have the only thing need - freedom. I am just another hum
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