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A veteran lifestyle journalist who was recently laid off says she was 'strategically made to resign' barely 20 days into the corona crisis, instead of being thrown out just so that her company could wriggle out of giving her severance pay. There was no sitting down and discussing, just a phone call and a WhatsApp message indicating that ‘your services are terminated’.

Her 24-year stint with the company she had served came to an abrupt end, along with the entire team of her weekend supplement. "It left a bitter taste in my mouth,” says Sona Lakhani (name changed) but she