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Soma Dutta

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Soma Dutta

Submitted to Contest #70

Simran picked up the vegetable basket and hung it to the handle of the perambulator. She made Shina, her ten months old baby daughter comfortable in the pram and started pushing it slowly. It was 12.30 pm ; she had to reach home within ten minutes and make the lunch ready. Her son Ishaan’s online classes were supposed to be over by 1.30 pm. It was mid winter. There was chill in the air even in the afternoon. Delhi in winter is usually beautiful with a lot of seasonal flowers here and there. But the pandemic had been threatening people ...

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