Reflections

It first hit me on the first week of March 2020. After a long weekend off for celebrating Holi, the classes were resumed. The campus is expected to have that vibrance back in it and was about to celebrate one year of its existence and had undergone many changes over the period. The outbreak of a virus in the nearby country was considered to be a distant phenomenon which was not supposed to have a direct impact on us. Post the Holi break, during which majority of the students have travelled to their hometown, were back and it might raise the chances of individuals exposed to the microbe, while they travelled. The classrooms had students wearing masks and apprehensions could be seen on the faces of the rest. The events which were to be organized by the departments were cancelled to reduce the chances of transmission of the pandemic. The coffee shop where I stopped for the daily quota of caffeine was comparatively empty and the medical room was equipped with masks, gloves along with han