Butter And Mashed Banana, a radio play
When the lockdown was suddenly announced I, like most people, had no idea of how long we would be shut down or the absolutely tragic proportions it would take in India. The shutting down of the historic Shaheen Bagh protest site was almost like the government seized on a global emergency as an opportunity to settle an ideological score that it had been sorely losing. In the midst of a pandemic, the authorities found the time and resources to wipe out graffiti of dissent, as if it was more dangerous and contagious than the virus. For all its rhetoric of national unity to ram the CAA through, the insincerity of the government’s commitment to the common Indian was revealed soon after, as the poorly planned, poorly executed lockdown left millions in deep economic, social and psychological dist...