Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ - Free to read  - Financial Times 🔗 🇮🇳 📰 ✍️ 📚 🦠

The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next

Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to our lungs?