Ten minutes before our scheduled telephonic chat with Tina Fernandes, this writer received an SOS from her on WhatsApp: “Will he declare an Emergency?” Fernandes had discovered on social media about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation for the second time in less than a week. The last time he had imposed #JanataCurfew, a 14-hour national lockdown. Now, having read a spurious “news” story online, which listed how India was readying for an Emergency, Fernandes was expecting something more dreadful.
Fernandes, 32, admits that this state of uneasiness, has found permanent room in her mind, especially since she started working from home two weeks ago.
The Mumbai-based content writer, was diagnosed with mixed anxiety-depressive disorder (MADD) in 2016, while she was in Europe to pursue a degree. The symptoms fluctuated from elevated moods of extreme happiness and…
