{"id":1002,"date":"2020-06-04T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danceofchaos.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2022-09-29T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:23:01","slug":"days-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danceofchaos.com\/de\/blogpost\/1002","title":{"rendered":"Days without Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quarantine Diaries by Madhura<\/p>

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Madhura is the latest author to contribute to this blog. If you like her write-up, do show your appreciation by liking the post. Please share our work, if you like it. You can click on the share button at the bottom of this blog.<\/p>

The blog aims to bring small pleasure in reading or listening to day to day happening in life, about fiction, travel-journals<\/a>,\u00a0musings<\/a>, and also about my gardening experiences<\/a>. There are regular collaborations<\/a> with creative minds.<\/p>

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Quarantine Diaries by Madhura                    Summer in Kolkata is quite unbearable due to its humid nature. What made it more unbearable was the occasional powercuts that we would had throughout the day. The most affected time was afternoon when the sun would be at its peak. We had hand-fans, made of talpata. 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