India, May 3 -- We asked T+L India reader Teodora Ivanova from Bulgaria about the COVID-19 lockdown situation in her country and how she's keeping up during this bleak time. Here's what she tells us. By Pallavi Phukan What were your first thoughts when the lockdown was put in motion?

First, a state of emergency was declared in Bulgaria. That was on Friday the 13th of March. I had to be out that evening; an unusually warm one for March, and I remember wondering what it would be like. After all, luckily not too many times in one's lifetime a national state of emergency is imposed. I thought the streets of Sofia would be immediately different, I really did not know what life would look like. My first thoughts were - how the day-to-day life ...