Lockdown Diary - My first YT Video




Hello Everyone and Welcome to my blog!!

I know that the recent times have been difficult for all of us because of the covid-19 pandemic.
Schools, colleges, offices are shut. Thousands of jobs are at risk, thousands of lives are at risk and so are thousands of dreams. Our doctors and frontline workers are putting their best efforts to make life a little better.

While I am not very happy sitting at home, but I am doing that for the last 2 months because this is the time when social distancing will actually help. And we all need to do that to stop the spread of the deadly virus. Maybe for a lot of young people the virus may not be fatal, but for most seniors its deadly. So for people like us, who can afford to work from our homes, we should try to stay indoors as much as possible till the time, the curve gets flattened.

For me, staying at home also equals to getting few extra hours which I can invest in my family, myself and in my creativity. So with a small part of those extra hours, I decided to come up with a YT  vlog in which I can present my daily life with my friends, family and viewers so that we all can relate to one another. Yes, the videos will be in Bengali which is my mother tongue. The reason is I plan to send the video links in my family WhatsApp group as well so that when people get time they can watch me and feel that the connection is strong as ever, although we are not meeting in person for sometime.

So if you have landed on this page and have read so far, I request you as a friend to enjoy my very first vlog. Hope more blogs will be following soon. Love you 💗


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