One of my uncles passed away this month, he succumbed to Covid. It was very sudden. And it happened right before the day I turned 31. It was my Mum who gave me the news, I was still asleep that morning. It took some time for the news to sink in. By the time I processed it, I called my cousin (his son) right away. He was a mess. Frankly I didn’t know what to tell him, forget consoling him. He said he was coming over to Chandannagar, I told him I will pick him up at the airport in Kolkata.