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Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 34, New Delhi, August 8, 2020
Routine! | A.K. Das
Friday 7 August 2020
#socialtagsAre you missing the routine:a drab, listless word,lidless stare of monotony?Getting ready, rushing to workplace,doing the day’s job,then the sun lengthening its shadows,you return home, tired,its comforting settings, warmthof your dear ones removing fatigue.Now a new reality has set in.You work from homewithout any fixed seat or cabin.There is no boundarybetween office and home;it’s blurred into a single space.You gradually get settledto a different work ambience:laptop, doorbell, clinking of utensils.Absence of spark, buzz of an outer office:a feeling of being confinedto a space creeps up within you.What was routine now seems exciting;its humdrum cradles a longing,beckons to connect with the world outside.
— A.K. Das