Our social lives also need a shot in the arm
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We need to combat the tendency to unwittingly extend our lockdown, writes Jeanne Martinet, who explains that our inner hermits have been allowed to take control of our psyches, and the people who were already introverted have grown even more so.
It's true I had been looking forward to watching the last two episodes of "The Queen's Gambit," and I had leftover pizza and an open bottle of wine waiting in the fridge. But was I actually going to choose staying home over going out with friends, when for an entire year I had done nothing but stream Netflix alone in my apartment?Two families have filed a federal lawsuit against Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Williamson County School District, claiming their middle school kids were arrested, strip-searched, placed in solitary confinement, forced to undergo evaluations and placed on house arrest after officials misinterpreted a Tennessee statute and claimed that conversations between peers were “threats of mass violence.”
India’s transformative yet divisive Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory in national elections on Tuesday evening, but his goal of winning an unassailable majority lies in tatters with early results showing as voters delivered a shock result that reduces the extent of his party’s grip on power.