An Indian Artist is Documenting Sounds From People Stuck in Isolation

Among many other things, the state of isolation has made most of us acutely aware is one major component of being under a lockdown: the silence all around us. In a country like India, especially, where our collective background score is usually noise and chaos, the silence of this “new normal” can seem deafening. So when Pallavi Paul, a New Delhi-based filmmaker and artist, experienced the streets for the first time under the lockdown in Delhi on March 24 (the lockdown was imposed on March 23), she was captivated.