ranchi people in the city have made tremendous changes in their daily routine during the lockdown so that they can strike a balance in working from home working for home and maintaining allround wellbeing within the confines of four walls though some managed to go outdoors for brief periods among the lockdown diaries of the citys residents are changing sleep patterns rising up early catching up on the epic serials mahabharata and ramayana walking their dogs and performing yoga and other exercisesmorhabadi ground once a park full of fitness freaks from all walks of life jobs aspirants who needs to be fit for physical tests and elderly citizens longing for the morning breeze every day is now deserted instead of the running or walking several rounds at morhabadi ground people are restricting themselves to pushups either on terrace or in their living rooms and gardens for those who can afford one ravindra kumar a government job aspirant and resident of kanke road said i used to run at least five kilometres every morning to maintain physical fitness but now i have to compensate it with mere pushups and indoor exercises it is not safe to go outside these days binay singh a resident of harmu and teacher by profession said in january i realized that i was overweight and i decided to do exercise at the harmu ground daily when the lockdown was announced i managed to fix an old bicycle and go for cycling for halfanhour and do pranayama on the terrace pets are also paying a heavy price during the lockdown the owners are now forced to take them out only for short walks or only on terraces or residential campuses shalini layak a professor at the central university of jharkhand said i am a dog lover and the lockdown has changed the way i used to take my pet out for a walk every morning we both used to go for at least one kilometre walk earlier but during the lockdown the distance has reduced to a few metres and i take my dog for a walk inside my colony only it is also not safe to go for long walks as some people throw disposable items or spit on roads