Via Media? By Hemanth Kumar “Why have you shifted your place to the roadside? I had a tough time finding you,” said Krishan Lal. If he sounded peevish, he thought it was justified. He was a long-time customer of barber Gopal and as a journalist he sometimes found the nonstop chattering of Gopal to be useful for his work too. For more than a year now he had cut his own hair clumsily as all trades and businesses shut shop because of COVID-19 scare.