The COVID Test
Alok Jha
A Covid Story that is certain to leave the readers in splits. It's the early days of the lockdown. The Deputy Commissioner of Excise has framed an exhaustive list of dos and don'ts, including strict quarantine rules for groceries. When he learns that his brother-in-law had attended a party, he reviews his own brief encounter with his wife's brother and isolates himself at the outhouse. While the wife, sceptical of the very presence of the viru...