Hotel lobbies, railway stations & airports, malls, and grocery stores, movie theatres, and restaurants – all places of public gathering have had to amend, adapt, and accept a paradigm shift in reality. What was yesterday’s perpetual white noise in the crowded, shoulder to shoulder packed streets of India is today’s relatively silent, socially distanced, mask-laden truth. De-sensitised to being repeatedly shot by temperature guns and sprayed by disinfectants, we have all adapted to this new world order.
Overall, while the landscape is still in a state of rapid change, it is important to understand the journey so far and the trendlines that have appeared in this unprecedented period.