There’s a nip in the air, Dussehra is over and the festival of lights around the corner. It should be time for Diwali melas, for people to have fun while stocking up on candles, handicrafts, furniture and what have you and giving artisans and small businesspersons their days of big earnings.
But then this is 2020, the year like no other, and the fear of the coronavirus lurks everywhere, compelling organisers to cancel the melas that have long been part of Diwali festivities in the city and its suburbs.
In another year, there would be fairs, with rides, food and shopping aplenty, as institutions, malls, individual localities and condominiums organised their own carnivals.
As cases spike – Delhi has been reporting more than 5,000 cases a day and its Covid count on Friday was 3.86 lakh – nobody wants to take a chance. So, organisers of the time-tested Sunder Nagar Mela…
