Mumbai-based career coach Srinivas Kulkarni made the most of his love for gardening during his time indoors in quarantine. Kulkarni started his home garden last April, a passion for which the seed had been sown much before, and he is savouring it more than ever now. “I was always interested in gardening but never had the time to do it," he says. "The lockdown helped me implement and spend my time on gardening and so I have managed to do it successfully for the last one year and will continue doing it in the time to come.” In the last one year, he has ambitiously grown broad beans, flat beans, and even okra.

It has been a year of adapting and learning for people in the city and around the world. Those who were previously unable to do justice to their hobbies have built on them during the last 12 months and used that as a distraction from the overwhelming nature of Covid-19. Among the various hobbies, gardening became particularly popular. Many are now growing that skill in full swing, as work-from-home seems to be the new normal.