Whenever major crises in history have taken place, they have caused the fragmentation of the linear progression of time because of the ruptures in daily life and existence. Wars and calamities have generally done that, as the normal functioning of the society slowed or halted altogether, even as civilisations attempted to survive despite all.
The previous century witnessed many such moments, and this century has een the first of its kind at the end of the second decade, as the lockdown due to the global pandemic gave rise to a point in history when there was an abrupt and wholly unprecedented deceleration of time.
I have often wondered what happens to love during such anomalies in time. The temporal experience of love, after all, is an essential aspect of social life. Aristotle had proposed the idea of reductionism in relation to time, through which we know that time and events are not isolated from each other. Plato, however, said they are independent of each other. So…