by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | COVID-19
The Health Foundation supported a Channel 4 documentary, Surviving COVID, to enhance understanding of the impact of the pandemic. This series of four short videos delves further into the issues raised by the documentary. They are drawn from footage captured by the...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Guest Blog, Poetry & Creativity
A fragment from a recent conversation with a frontline worker, ‘…I just feel unable to come out of shielding…. I don’t think I’m ever going to feel like myself again…’ There is a profound sense of hopelessness in her and as we sit quietly I can feel not just her...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
‘A song of silence’ a poem by Dr Ananta Dave… ‘Around me, between the dialling of 999 and the hoarse, laboured breaths, The blare of a siren And the chugging of an engine, Between the laughter of togetherness And the sighs of relief, The anguished cries of the bereft...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
When I was growing up in India as a teenager in 1980s Mumbai (Bombay as it was called then), a ghazal (a form of rhyming love poetry) sung by the noted singer Pankaj Udhas had become famous and was on everyone’s lips. I would hear the song, ‘चिट्ठीआईहै’ (‘Chitthi...
