“For the greater good & to keep the entertainers in the system who shall entertain us throughout, let us be conscious of our surroundings & encourage a mass audience to take necessary precautions.” - Sonia Swaroop Choksi, Documentary Filmmaker & Co-Founder of Match My [Talent] Coronavirus, a group of viruses that ceased to exist in humans until sometime back has entered the human race through the backdoors of cattle-rearing & petting of animals. It has taken the world by the throat, and posed an endangering threat to human life. What might have started off as a scare, has now turned into a global pandemic, as declared by WHO. India for sure needs to pull up the socks for what is about to hit us in perhaps the coming months or days. Browse the internet, go through any news channel, read any newspaper, or better still, peep just outside your window to the silent streets. All you can hear, read or see are the effects of the coronavirus outbreak across the globe & India. As much as the national government, global organisations & self-help groups are trying to educate & aware people of this pandemic, there is only so much one can do. Speaking of India, a country with a population of 133 crore people has started to show effects of imbalances in terms of economy, finances, and opportunities. Millions of lives have come to a standstill and most have a gut feeling that the much anticipated 2020 is not going to have expected negative effects. We are sitting in a country that has many unorganised sectors, and they cater to more than 90% of employment in the country. Daily wagers, temporary workers, and project based workers are the backbones of this unstructured community and it is clear that they have suffered the most. The art, entertainment, media & film industry have had one of the biggest hits in times of a national lockdown. These industries work strictly on incomes that are generated by either sale of art, services, events, concerts, interactions, and public conversations. Soumitra Thakur, a young musician and sitar player from New Delhi said, “Concerts getting cancelled in a row for months together is a setback because we don’t just go and perform but prepare for a concert for months and months. It’s an opportunity loss because we have missed connecting with that audience. May happen again, may not. It’s a financial setback.If we don’t earn for a regular period of time, we are totally effected and all these uncertainties break our confidence” You may have read the effects of Novel Coronavirus on the stock market, how it may have affected the share price of an MNC or how it has forced countries to restrict trade. However, we have all missed out on the bigger picture of this pandemic. The status of those who are in the conversation. Artists across the globe. Amidst a disaster that hit them like none other, Italy saw people playing instruments in their balconies & singing to cheer each other up. Let me remind you, music & art are an ongoing process that need attention. However, have we done enough for the artists in dyer times like these? Hasn't their livelihood hit a massive crisis? Ajay Vincent, a Director of Photography in the Film Industry of India spoke of the daily wagers who earn on a pro-rata basis. He expressed his deep melancholy toward those who belong to a middle-class section of our society and how this lockdown would strongly affect their living. Owing to this major loss & stagnation, Siddharth Roy Kapur, president of the Producer’s Guild in India announced a relief-fund that would help curb the situation in a certain way by paying allowance to technicians, daily wagers, and temporary workers. A deadly virus like corona has forced people to stay indoors. Events, concerts and plays have been cancelled that were scheduled in March as well as April & May. When spoken to Vaishali Chakravarty, Theatre actor, teacher and founder of Joy of Drama, she gave us an insight into how she decided to not only Netflix & Chill but also tune into a live online group story performance session that would allow children to read & learn under 75 minutes. Pandemics take control of operations not only internationally but by per-household too. How does one deal with sickness when the mere source of income is at a standstill? Are we giving this sector enough allowance to sustain while they cannot work-from-home? It delves into a deeper conversation that stays pending. Those creative minds who can work-from-home can still wait it out for another week, however, can we really say the same for those who stand helpless in such times?