With the horrors of the second wave, this Covid lockdown journal acquires a fresh poignancy
With the horrors of the second wave, this Covid lockdown journal acquires a fresh poignancy Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s ‘A Town Slowly Empties’ is a meditation on urban life during the pandemic. Manjunath Kiran / AFP There is perhaps nothing more personal than the act of writing a journal. It is, after all, one of the few forms of without that don’t carry consequences, where one is not only vivacious and intensely humane but also honest about oneself and the world. But journals can also be something more: texts that offer relief not only to the one writing them but also to those ...