This May, we bring you a special Lockdown Edition for all your blues. Since travel is banned for now, we—along with cover star Jim Sarbh—look at the world sideways, and we do so with hope. Nine writers from around the world including Lisa Ray from Singapore and Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi from Goa paint a portrait of their cities and people in lockdown. Find inspiration from Rumi’s life in Konya and the moments of epiphany that Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer experienced on his birthday trip to Japan with his twin brother. While one compelling tale transports you to the magical Black Forest in Germany, another shows you what it’s like to be stranded amid the extravagance of Morocco. To help you stay fit and creative at home, celebrity chefs dish out 10 recipes for a taste of the world inside your kitchen, and Milind Soman reveals his fitness mantra.