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11 April 2020 There is a simple issue now, which is age old, with adage that goes like this- a remedy worse than the malady. So increasingly as the lockdown bites on economies world over, experts, industrial leaders are calling for a review, crying for a course correction even as Easter Sunday is upon us! […]

8 April 2020 We are now well past these debates about testing. As in the ICMR policy guidelines and an approach based on tracing contacts of infected cases and trying to seal off the infection. We know now when a postman from a rural hamlet in Odisha tests positive or a tea vendor near Matoshree […]

3 April 2020 CNN host Mr Cuomo said categorically that he did not want to look the numbers in the eye! He didn’t want to hear of it at all. This while hosting his show from the basement of his house where he had been confined to, after testing positive for Covid19! So what makes […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

26 March 2020 A discussion with friends showed how seriously divergent were expert views, Black Swan event as this pandemonium of a pandemic is, that has descended upon us. Exactly two weeks ago, many were smug, chiding me for crying wolf, when the case numbers were less than 100000, which included a disproportionate 80% from […]