Veena Basavarajaiah is a movement artist: a performer, creator, producer and activist based in Bengaluru. Her dance training ranges  from bharatanatyam to kalaripayattu to contemporary. She has a Masters in Dance from Roehampton University in the UK.

Two contrasting views on the lockdown experience: life behind bars, or the retreat into the mind and the imagination? Cartoon_natyam Veena Basavarajaiah illustrates one angle while Nainika Mukherjee from Delhi writes of positive outcomes.