Debarati Sen (BOMBAY TIMES; March 29, 2020)

Following his recent online concert on the Janata Curfew day (March 22), Sonu Nigam now plans to open the doors of his bungalow in Madh Island for the treatment and accommodation of coronavirus patients and health workers in Mumbai. He and his father, singer Agam Kumar Nigam, have been toying with the thought ever since multiple countries, including India, announced a complete lockdown in the wake of the pandemic of COVID-19 escalating.

Sonu, who is in Dubai with his family, says, “Anyone, who has an unoccupied home or bungalow, should make it available to help the government in these unprecedented trying times.” He adds, “Looking at the state of affairs in Italy, UK and Spain, I feel that India should be well-prepared for any kind of eventuality. We have a little over 1.3 billion people and the stakes are enormous. We could run out of space in hospitals. Look at how England is coping with this crisis. They have created kilometrelong emergency shades to accommodate the rising number of coronavirus cases.”

It is learnt that the singer also has plans to make his farmhouse in Karjat available, should the corona crisis in the city go out of hand.