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Chronicles from the lockdown

Having help has left us free to work from home and offered the freedom to catch up with long-pending tasks

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Kishore Singh
The family that occupies the house next door has all four members currently in residence, but none of its staff. It has caused our cook no little mirth that sahib, who heads a factory with several hundred, or thousand, workers, can be spotted doing jharoo-pocha from her kitchen window. Her belly rolls as she tells me this. Never have I been more grateful for our resident staff, even though they are away from their families during this emotionally-draining crisis.

Our children don’t know how to cook (unless you count dissolving packets of Maggi in hot water), I’m not great at running
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