A novelist gets Covid-19 up in a Himalayan town. This is what her life turns into
A novelist gets Covid-19 up in a Himalayan town. This is what her life turns into Writer Anuradha Roy on her encounter with coronavirus in Ranikhet, Uttarakhand where she lives. The Covid-19 kit handed out in Uttarakhand. Sound carries long distances in the clear air of the Himalaya. These last weeks, as I lay awake much of the night in knots of anxiety about friends and relatives in the big cities, I could hear hoarse coughs – pausing, coughing again – in the house down the hill. The oldest son had insisted on going to a wedding in Haldwani, 80 kilometres away. He came back and ...
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