The urban canvas of India in its response to uncertainty of the global pandemic has unfolded a multitude of ethnic shades. While the plazas and squares in its pristine architecture shrunk to the geometries of space remaining a picturesque montage, a void that truly defined the public realm, the Indian context revelled in its new donned garb of utilitarian adornment. Transformation of public spaces as markets, civic awareness camps and as an assemblage of quarantine centres showcases the temporality of the space and tenacity to the context. In the new normal cityscapes of social distancing, the digital world has unleashed virtual convergence as the syntax against the expanding boundaries of the urban scenario. The booming issue of dens(c)ity becoming the contention and the flow of migrants defining the networks, the innate connect of sheltering the distanced and societal integration in the times of plunging economies exhibit the underlying chord of universality. The quarantine paving the way for rootedness of nature and uprooting of exploitive economy has led to introspection of the existential being and primal exploration of the inner realms of the self. The deeper meaning of people in space, creating a home from a house, reflecting the potency of the social domain of the house in applauding, entertaining and bonding in the privatised public realms of balconies, sit-outs, terraces paint the shade of awakening of the inner realm. The emerging typology of inner-scapes or inscapes redefines the residential quarter in it inclusive and exclusive spaces. The Indian landscape in its revival of folk arts and live performing traditions of the street has morphed to become an instrument of edu-cating and creating awareness, reminiscences the deeply ingrained cultural legacy resonating camaraderie of oneness.