: Sunday, December 27, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
From One World concert to #savewithstories: How virtual events kept the world afloat amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra also participated in One World: Together At Home
It was like the rarest of rare cases that cultural institutions around the world and in India shut down â during the coronavirus prompted lockdown. Whether it was the NCPA Mumbai, the MOMA New York or the Tate Modern London. Soon, curators of art festivals, theatre directors, musicians and writers started thinking of how to put their plays, their tunes and their works of art online, and also generate some of that same experience for a lockdown tired viewer. Whether it was watch parties held virtually, or plays which re-formatted themselves to fit a virtual platform, like Zoom, culture went through a process of fine-tuning. How to cater to a virtual audience craving for some feel-good entertainment.