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There is a strain of thought, that whether this price is civilisational, and if so, was it worth it? As liberal humanists, people are of the opinion that humankind has seen similar epidemics and pandemics in the past without ever bringing about such draconian measures. There are peaceniks who argue why humanity must pay the Read more

The few people comparing Kerala’s response to Nipah outbreak two years back, care to look at the crucial determinants with respect to SARS CoV 2. The first is that Nipah was known zoonosis, with standardised testing and laid down quarantine procedures, including disposal of the dead. Here it is a ‘novel’ situation and the Chinese Read more

30 March 2020 I firmly believe that in our Age of Instant Gratification, the loss of the human connect to Nature, the artifice of glitz and glamour that modern technology has surrounded us with, has made us in a way insufficient to deal with the bug unleashed by our own expanding footprint into natural biospheres. Read more

29 March 2020 When we think of crusaders, we acknowledge that etymology of its religious context, of how Christendom tried to win Jerusalem from the Arabs, and how myriad Kings, Princes, nobles and the lay were to organise and contribute to the ‘cause’. Since then the word is used for such a disproportionate level of Read more

27 March 2020 This comes from a very fast and furious turn of events, an exchange where a colleague went from disbelieving numbers put out by various bodies and from my end for Covid19 in India, to questioning how the Chinese could not have the numbers they have, being the source point of this pandemic Read more

26 March 2020 Now let us see the label issue. Chinese sensitivities are offended when we use the appellation of origin to the Coronavirus pandemic by calling it ‘Chinese’. Till recently pandemics have been called likewise even if erroneously like Spanish Flu, London Bubonic Plague. Yet like how World Meteorology allows countries to take turns Read more