Devashish Dhar

All photographs were clicked by the author.

It was 15 August 2021, when India was celebrating its 75th Independence day, at around 2 pm I received a call from my Afghan colleague working for the United Nations in Kabul. He spoke with urgency and desperation that he had to leave office and return home immediately since the Taliban had entered Kabul city. I was telecommuting from my home at Nagpur due to the COVID19 pandemic. Everything changed after that, everyone stopped discussing work and their only concern was to evacuate the UN staff.

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