From homeschooling to learning new skills: How Bollywood stars are parenting in quarantine

Professional work may have come to a halt amid the nation-wide lockdown due to coronavirus, but Bollywood stars have found themselves playing multiple roles for their kids in quarantine- from being their teachers, to engaging with them in activities as friends.

India is currently under the lockdown with around 1.3 billion people asked to stay home in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

Actor Neha Dhupia, who has a one-and-a-half year old daughter Mehr with actor-husband Angad Bedi, says the couple is trying to follow the routine that their daughter would've had at school.

"I'm spending a lot of time with my daughter, teaching her things, trying to follow a syllabus that she would be because she goes to Parent Toddler. She was learning a lot at her school with me but now I'm trying to keep the same rhythm going and teaching her everything, from numbers, to alphabets, to reading more books," Dhupia told PTI.

For Angad, the lockdown has come with a silver lining. As both Neha and him were "always on the go", the quarantine period is bringing him closer to her daughter.

"There is joy in spending time with one another. To see our little one grow up in front of us. I had missed her for 21 days when she was away with her mom on Roadies'. When I left her, she wasn't walking, she was crawling. She has now come back to me, obviously gained some inches in height and is walking, finding her way. It is the most heartening thing to see."
Actor Sunny Leone, who has three childrendaughter Nisha and two sons Noah and Asherhas also shifted her focus to homeschooling, which she says "is not necessarily hard."
"Of course she's missing her friends, outdoor activities and her amazing teachers, but Daniel and I are trying our best. The boys also have their online schooling that's happening as well. They are only two but the little bit of interaction they have with their teachers during classes does help with their learning."
Describing parenting in quarantine as a "dichotomy of emotions," Shilpa wrote in one of her posts, "I am concerned about what's happening around us while we are hoping and praying for the situation to get better across the world, I'm also valuing and spending extra time with Viaan every day."