Lockdown Times: Essays Written During the Covid 19 Pandemic

Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic, author and poet based in Kolkata. Her publications include a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open; an edited volume of essays on travel, Across and Beyond; two volumes of poems, The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems, Raindrops on the Periwinkle, a co-edited volume of poems Voices and Vision: The First IPPL Anthology and a collection of short stories The Window Sill. Her recent book is an edited volume of critical essays, Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence (Routledge, 2023). She is the Secretary of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata and is member, Advisory Board, Alzheimers and Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter.