May 2023

Owing to the pandemic there was enough confusion, chaos on the outside. But what troubled me more was the instability on the inside. I had no work to do and sometimes every minute felt like a huge burden. This sounds like an ideal situation – getting paid for being at home, doing nothing. But for a 22-year-old who has some ambitions, it was a very difficult time. I had a plethora of questions….

I was born in Dehradun, I spent my childhood in a place in Uttar Pradesh called Badaun, which was not that big of a town for quality education. And then came a huge change in my life, I moved to Noida. I enrolled in a prestigious school. The initial phase at the school was very demanding and taxing for me as I hailed from a different environment….