An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: Indians narrate their lived experiences of a lockdown and pandemic December 31, 2020 13:21:50 IST Pandemic: “An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people ( WHO)”; “[of a disease] existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants ( Cambridge English Dictionary)”; “occurring over a wide geographic area — such as multiple countries or continents — and typically affecting a significant proportion of the p...