Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

For Shehana Fathima, a 20-year-old engineering student from Thrikkakara, the evening of March 24 will always be memorable. Just an hour before the Prime Minister announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown ...