India, April 7 -- For a marine biologist and conservationist, this phase of social distancing is a time of learning and rediscovery. Nayantara Jain tells us why she chose diving, the ultimate form of isolation, as a lifestyle, and what we can all learn from stillness. Text By Nayantara Jain & Photographs By Sumer Verma

No man is an island, wrote a solemn John Donne 400 years ago, to remind us all of our interconnectedness, to highlight our predominantly social selves, to urge us to pay cognisance to the fact that our pain is shared, that we rely on companionship and the comfort of others, that loss resonates, that happiness spreads. And so too, we are ruthlessly reminded today, does a virus. And to this microscopic virus-less than a mill...