Isolation sparks Creativity
I can confidently say that I don’t remember anyone in my generation, who has lived through a situation like this pandemic has thrown us in. Among other things, one thing that is happening in excess, is all art forms being flooded on the social media, giving anyone who has a smart phone too much to choose from. Everyone is posting or uploading. their singing, dancing, cooking and everything else they do ! I often feel mentally choked, not because I watch but just this unsolicited splurge of creative (often mediocre) outbursts are so distracting. I have to admit that this experience with the pandemic is awe-inducing in it’s commonality. And, creative responses in the form of art, literature, cinema, dance, music and many more are bound to keep emerging for years to come. Now more the ever, are the words of Lenin making sense….. ‘There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happens’. I agree that this is probably the right time for great exploration of ideas.