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The honeymooners who organised a train that helped others get home too

When a close friend of mine had a quiet wedding in Manipur on March 18, it seemed a risk-free affair. The coronavirus hadn't yet travelled to the Northeast

Illustration: Ajay Mohanty
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But when she revealed that they had decided on a honeymoon in Goa, I wondered if the newly-weds were pushing their luck | Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Ritwik Sharma
When a close friend of mine had a quiet wedding in Manipur on March 18, it seemed a risk-free affair. The coronavirus hadn’t yet travelled to the Northeast. But when she revealed that they had decided on a honeymoon in Goa, I wondered if the newly-weds were pushing their luck.
 
A month later, we chatted about our lockdowned lives. She told me that she spent her days eating, sleeping, watching Netflix, occasionally cooking and walking on the beach.
 
I listened enviously, till it suddenly struck me that my friend Diana Chabungbam and her husband K Bikram Singh (names changed) were