Although the nation-wide shutdown has been extended by another two weeks, much has changed since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s televised address of March 24 when he declared the first lockdown to fight the pandemic. When Modi took the centrestage a second time, the lockdown’s extension to May 3 was, atypically, projected as a decision wanted by all chief ministers. It was not a media event with the kind of build up which preceded the two previous announcements.