We’ll See The Sea Again by Zahra Amiruddin

Today the sound of the sea is enough. It’s a reminder that the city still exists, while we build alternate realities, and ‘new normals,’ within home.

Outside, the waves bring a ballad to distant inhabitants that yearn for its luminous song.

Funny, that we’re now missing the cities we live in.

50 days (since), 5.1km away, we’ll see the sea again.

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Memories strung together during the second month of the strict Covid-19 Lockdown, Bombay, India 2020.

Zahra Amiruddin is an independent writer, photographer, and educator based in Bombay. After studying photography, art history, and theatre at the Aegean Centre for the Fine Arts, in Paros, Greece, she has worked and contributed to various publications such as The National Geographic Traveller India, Time Out India, The Hindu, The Condé Nast Traveller India, First Post, Elle, Vogue and Soup amongst others. Apart from teaching photography in colleges and workshops, her main areas of interest include art, history, astronomy, personal narratives, and family histories. Her greatest thrill has been assisting Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York during his trip to India and working with a team of NASA scientists at the Lonar Crater in Maharashtra. When she’s not chasing after pockets full of light, she practices conjuring the perfect patronus in her free time.