The recently modified Citizenship Amendment Act was met with fervent protest in Shaheen Bagh in December 2019. The "community question" of who is a citizen was revived. Another seismic occurrence?the coronavirus pandemic?will occur in March 2020. The period of isolation had arrived. These incidents made it necessary to reconsider several essential issues: Describe a constitution. Isolated social lives are they possible? Why did we stay inside during the lockdown when some were left on the streets? Do we become immune to all encounters?politics, love, and art?because of the "new normal"? Soumyabrata Choudhury, a philosopher and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, persevered through this turmoil.