Somoyer Janalaguli (Windows of Time) (2022)

In the first Covid-19 lockdown situation in 2020, all the non-human elements on earth remained unchanged, only human beings turned helpless confounded. Therefore, in that time phase, a new existential discourse was developed in the new relationship between non-human and the human beings. A sense of "conflict/tension" began taking its shape along the 'Time' traversed then. In the lockdown, temporality became the space, the container of a narrative. All the spaces looked same, static, paused, non-moving, and not dynamic enough to hold a narrative. Only Time moved in its unchanged rhythm, and we all went with that rhythm. Hence, the logic of temporality in our life became the only receptacle to sit inside, and we were into experimenting with Time in our own way individually sitting there and began celebrating it. However, the nature revolted. It did not tolerate so much anarchy in human existence; pressed the accelerator and broke all the unreal celebratory stasis of human life. The devastating cyclone, the Amphan, hit the Eastern India brutally; specifically the southern part of West Bengal state, the coastal Odisha and some parts of Bangladesh on 20 May 2020 and made everything topsy-turvy in the true sense. This heavy natural catastrophe dissolved all the emotional lockdown that was developing gradually in people's minds due to long functional lockdown, eventually. People came out on the streets breaking all so-called Covid-rules of new normal, went close to each other as needed and quite interestingly, from then onwards, the rate of infection had gone down rapidly towards the normal life. Hence, the system resumed, we all started coming out from that temporal bucket. However, unfortunately, the virus did not go away, stayed with us as a new permanent friend and we all learned living with it maintaining rituals of new normal gracefully.