Sweet nostalgia in a Dreadful Situation – A Feature article 

 He then went on to compare his generation with the present generation. In his mind, he had a dialogue with himself, “kids nowadays are hard to find playing outside and what else to expect from this PUBG and COC generation. There can’t be the same enjoyment in playing ‘Ice/Water’ and PUBG. This generation is so grumpy & slothful that these children don’t want to take efforts to have fun. They just want a screen and internet. But maybe it isn’t their fault. There is hardly any open space now and the streets are always crowded with noisy vehicles. What can they do? I feel pity for them sometimes”.

He has a plethora of random thoughts coming to his mind while driving. He then imagines himself as being privileged on the street. Today it feels like he owns the street as he can drive the way he likes to, the speed he likes because the street is not crowded today and in fact, there is hardly any vehicle on the road in sight. He starts to feel like he is walking on the Aisle of Met Gala. He gets completely immersed in his beautiful and quirky thoughts. Suddenly, he is signaled to stop his scooter.

He is taken back from his thoughts all of a sudden. Some Policemen stare at him and he sweats a little thinking about what he has done. A policeman asks him angrily what he is doing on the streets in Lockdown and asks him to go home to help the government contain the spread of Coronavirus. He says he is from Zomato Delivery Services and that the government has allowed delivery of Essential Commodities and adds that he is taking all kinds of precautions from wearing a mask to following all government measures to vanquish the pandemic.