The First Wave: Life of a Covid Warrior

The book lays out the touching and insightful experiences of the author while he was working as an Associate Professor at AIIMS Raipur during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Very vividly he describes his encounter with the pandemic as a frontline COVID warrior. On one hand he was struggling with loneliness unable to meet his family relatives friends and others due to quarantine protocols; on the other hand he was working tirelessly for the patients in the hospital. Dr. Prashant Nayak also narrates how he went through this very difficult phase of his life being affected both emotionally and physically keeping himself engaged with his work for patients while rediscovering his old passionswriting and singing. The climax of the book is indeed heart-rending where he unfolds the series of obstacles he faced while trying to travel to his hometown across the interstate border.