The words had only been floating in the wind until then.
The news came like a whirlwind, right in the midst of a celebratory feast at the hostel on the night before the final exam.
Since morning, Bikash and Pranami had been on duty in the COVID ward…
Just a day before joining his new job, the newly graduated engineer Rupam received his medical report — COVID positive. On the very day thoughts of suicide began haunting him, he crossed paths with Dr. Manasi…

When the news of her mother’s death reached her, Dr. Manasi was confined to a hotel’s COVID isolation room in the city. In that cage of confinement, it was as if the very oxygen was gone…

Uber driver Pranab, advocate Pritam, police officer Jeevan Basumatary, bureaucrat Tonkeswar Sahoriya, teacher, psychological expert Meenakshi, Bhaskar and his wife Firoza, businessman Sanjeev, and the lost teenager Barnil — all came together to create an impenetrable world.

Why? Could the virus really be the result of biological warfare?

“They say the funding for the virus research at the Wuhan lab came from America…”