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, inspiration behind his characters and the impact of pandemic on human emotions.
1. What inspired
Quarantined: Love in the time of Corona?
Blame it on the quarantine, the lockdown that we are in. During my quarantine, I wanted to explore the lives of others who are my co-passengers in this ordeal. I wanted to know when our mechanised lives are forced to become human and we are forced to break our routines, forced to relook at our lives as well as our relationships, and last but not the least, forced to give time to things and people who really matter, that too unlimited, what happens? In addition, for a writer, creativity is your only trusted friend. Therefore, I created these characters, these protagonists and put them in the same premise of the quarantine and watch them respond and react to different scenarios that I toyed with as a writer. Finally, as they say, the beauty of a short story is that you can travel to the end of the world and can be back before dinne