时间的窗户 Somoyer Janalaguli

In the first Covid-19 lockdown situation in 2020, a new existential discourse was developed in the new relationship between non-human elements and the human beings. A sense of “conflict/tension” was started taking its shape along the ‘Time’ traversed then. All the spaces looked same, static, paused, and not dynamic enough to hold a narrative. Only Time moved in its unchanged rhythm and behaved like the space, the container of the lockdown narrative. The logic of temporality in our life became the only receptacle to sit inside and celebrate it individually. But the nature didn’t tolerate so much anarchy in human existence and appeared as a devastating calamity, the Amphan. It broke all the unreal celebratory stasis of human life in the southern part of an Indian state West Bengal. People started coming out from that temporal bucket and learned living with the virus maintaining rituals of new normal gracefully.