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ovid-19, lockdown, social distancing, keeping up two brothers have had their morning play session in our
with studies online, we had so much stuff to cope living room. But when I found my father secretly petting
Cup with in this new COVID-19 affected world of them when no one was watching (according to him
2020. It was not easy for people in general to stay in their obviously) this problem got sorted too. Still, they were not
homes, not going out in the public for anything except allowed to stay in the house at night due to fear of having
essential groceries etc. For us students it was hard too. to clean their droppings in the morning. God had other
The friends we had been interacting, playing, enjoying plans though. Around the third week of the month of
with for so long were not there. We were alone. Of course, May when the lockdown was in full swing here in West
there was internet to keep us entertained, connect with Bengal came a new problem- “Amphan”. It was around 9
our friends but it was not o’clock when we could
the same. In these times feel that the storm was
everyone tried to find some over us; trees were
new hobby, some new falling left and right in
means of engagement to our neighborhood. Ping
cope up with the solidarity , Pong and their mother
we faced. I found this new were already huddled
engagement in PING and up in our veranda as the
PONG. doors were closed due
No, this isn’t the game to the storm. We could
which is played with a hear the cats calling
small ball and 2 short bats to enter the room but
on a table. These are the grandma didn’t allow
names of two kittens that obviously. But after a
were born three days after while when their cries
the lockdown started here didn’t stop, I decided to
in the piles of newspaper open the door and had
stacked in our veranda a stiffening realization.
beside the shoe rack. The PING WAS MISSING. I
mother of these two was went in the knee-deep
a regular visitor in our backyard, coming and sniffing water-logged courtyard calling out. To my surprise their
around for food. My mother would seldom feed that cat mother also jumped in the water calling out to her son. I
and I didn’t think much about it. But when the kittens realize now that it was a bad decision to go into the water
were born, I felt an instantaneous connection to these two. during a cyclone but I wasn’t really thinking straight and
Ping and Pong were named rhyming with Ding and Dong was scolded pretty badly after the incident. After all he was
the two rabbits my mother had when she herself was a just a two-three-week-old kitten, how long could he survive
child. They were the most adorable little balls of fur and in that storm in the water. After searching for about two or
fluff that you can ever imagine. Both of them are white three minutes I found the mother, Ping in mouth, trying to
with Ping having black spots and Pong having grey spots. stay afloat in the water. Mother’s love always wins, I guess.
It really bothered me when my father addressed these two Due to this incident now the two brothers sleep inside the
as “kalota” and “chai-chai ta”. house in a place designated for them.
It was a little hard at first to convince my father and During the months of lockdown, it was really a good
grandmother to keep them around the house. They didn’t distraction to see them curl up around our feet and call
appreciate the fur strands flying about the house after the in their sweet little voices to pet them and caress them. In

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