The first question that will come to mind is "does the blues exist?" Indeed, it does. It's as real as our other emotions and feelings.  

Sooner or later, everyone gets the blues. Feeling sadness, melancholic, or grief when you go through challenging life experience is part of being human. And most of the time, you can continue to function. You know that in time you will bounce back, and you do.

The corona outbreak is by far the biggest crisis of its kind in our living memory. To check the spread of the pandemic, the Indian government responded promptly and announced a 21 days nationwide lockdown, from 24 March 2020.  Amongst many precautionary measures, it seems that the government did not adequately consider the health and psychiatric consequences of sudden non-availability of alcohol, toddy and tobacco (cigarettes, beedi, gutka, etc.) on those addicted to these substances.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places. A. R. Rahman

Technology-aided virtual life has marred our current existence; thereby isolation is inadvertently imposed by ignoring ourselves and those in the vicinity. Staring at the backlit screen of personal devices consumes our waking moments. We are compulsively searching for nothing we want and learning about someone we don’t know.

Innumerable Indians are addicted to nicotine (one of the most habit-forming substances known to man) in various forms.  Some smoke, others sniff or chew it. Many live under the myth that chewing gutka or smokeless tobacco is less harmful than smoking. Most not aware that gutka is literally ‘a pinch of poison’ and an ingredient for severe ailments and slow death.