I Was 18 When COVID Lockdown Hit India — Here Is What That Did to Our Generation Forever
By BrainBuzz Team | March 2026 | Life and Generation | 10 min read I Was 18 When COVID Lockdown Hit India Here Is What It Did to Our Entire Generation Forever Six years ago today, a voice came through every television and phone speaker in India at the same time. 21 days. Stay home. And just like that, the world stopped. I was 18. My board exams had just been cancelled. My college admission was uncertain. My grandmother was in a city I could not reach. And outside the window, the streets that had never been silent in my entire life were completely empty. Six years later I am still figuring out what that did to me. And I suspect you are too. March 24 2020. The date sits in the memory of every Indian who was young enough to have their formative years shaped by what followed. Not just the 21 days that became months. Not just the masks and the sanitiser. But the deeper, less visible things. The things we lost that never came back. The ways w...
