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The novel coronavirus doesn’t just hijack your body, it alters your mind, milieu and relationships. Five people talk about the fight of their lives and how it’s changed them
Editor's note: She didn’t want to die alone, carrying a stigma. So Ruqyya Bano, a 35-year-old social activist from Delhi, put thoughts of her children front and centre to beat back the novel coronavirus infection that threatened to take everything away. “There were a couple of times when I wanted to run away, end it all; it was becoming too much to handle,” says Bano about her May ordeal. “But then I thought about my children. It wouldn’t be fair to them. No matter what I did or how my life ended at that point, people would brand me, target my children, destroy my family.” In distant Bhagalpur, Bihar, unknown to her, Rashi V. was fighting her own battle. One against an apathetic healthcare system, where tests are hard to come by and doctors are quite clueless about treatment protocols. While both managed to make a total recovery, retired contractor Maqsood Alam Siddiqui, 60, wasn’t quite so fortunate. He continues to battle gastrointestinal problems and nausea four months on. Add hand tremors, extreme fatigue and muscular pain to the mix and he …
The novel coronavirus doesn’t just hijack your body, it alters your mind, milieu and relationships. Five people talk about the fight of their lives and how it’s changed them
Editor's note: She didn’t want to die alone, carrying a stigma. So Ruqyya Bano, a 35-year-old social activist from Delhi, put thoughts of her children front and centre to beat back the novel coronavirus infection that threatened to take everything away. “There were a couple of times when I wanted to run away, end it all; it was becoming too much to handle,” says Bano about her May ordeal. “But then I thought about my children. It wouldn’t be fair to them. No matter what I did or how my life ended at that point, people would brand me, target my children, destroy my family.” In distant Bhagalpur, Bihar, unknown to her, Rashi V. was fighting her own battle. One against an apathetic healthcare system, where tests are hard to come by and doctors are quite clueless about treatment protocols. While both managed to make a total recovery, retired contractor Maqsood Alam Siddiqui, 60, wasn’t quite so fortunate. He continues to battle gastrointestinal problems and nausea four months on. Add hand tremors, extreme fatigue and muscular pain to the mix and he …
Decades of investment in health and social infrastructure went into getting the southern state’s infant mortality rate down to 5 deaths per 1,000 live births—far lower than the national average of 25.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The company is now just another aggregator in the budget hotel sector. And the shift does make sense; OYO wants to cut losses and its India business isn’t all that important anymore.
Decades of investment in health and social infrastructure went into getting the southern state’s infant mortality rate down to 5 deaths per 1,000 live births—far lower than the national average of 25.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The company is now just another aggregator in the budget hotel sector. And the shift does make sense; OYO wants to cut losses and its India business isn’t all that important anymore.
