There’s a certain charm to reading an anthology. If one story fails to impress, you can easily move to the next one. The Phoenix Rises: Lockdown Chronicles is a collection of short stories from various writers which makes it so much more enriching. The compilation strives to chronicle an important event in the history of our lives and necessitates attention.
You may love some stories and abhor others, but, The Phoenix Rises: Lockdown Chronicles is a collection of stories that will make you want to read more. The collection begins with Jug Suraiya’s story Present Tense, about how the pandemic has thrust itself on us. There are several other excellent writers to choose from – Sohan Hatangadi, Anjum Katyal, Navtej, and Antara Dev Sen, to name a few. The experiences in several stories may sound similar because people are writing about what happened to them under the lockdown. The underlying theme is how days turned into weeks and then months and a new normal became part of life. Pick up this book to know how we may be in different boats but still battle the same storm.