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22 May 2020 Disease mortality is determined by a metric called mortality rate which is basically a statistic of how many per thousand suffered from the disease, which was identified as the underlying or immediate cause of death over a defined period of time. Why it is important is because it makes a particular infectious […]

19 May 2020 While alarm bells arose in Australia over the recent double strokes by China making agro products exports to that country, Australia’s single largest market for exports, grind to a halt, it is also a testimony to how USA as a leader of the Western World and as a strategic stake holder in […]

17 May 2020 We do not as yet know how far Australia’s Parliamentary Committee on Industry and Trade led by Mr George Christensen will go, but as one who studied how Australia can change the way it functioned in medical field after recommendations of Ipp Committee were accepted, I can tell you, if there is […]

15 May 2020 Never has humanity been through a collective phase like now. It is unprecedented when you think of it. Yes, in my Climate Change series of stories that are shaped like a novella, I did think of a world much like this one, where huge swathes of populations would find themselves cut off, […]

8 May 2020 We have before us the vivid example of a smaller radius of a what was then global economy collapsing and the known world of that time entering The Dark Ages, which is studied by most historians and biblical scholars since it is also the period documented for The Exodus which is supposed […]

25 April 2020 So now the scientific community is working on the premise that first the virus could have jumped much earlier, it has three strains and that it’s initial strain indicates that it came from a bat coronavirus, the subsequent two are familial generational variations, the second strain is a daughter, the third being […]

21 April 2020 It is just this bombardment of news or the constant eagerness to see if the curve has flattened, is it the waiting for good news or the sheer volume of news, this world in Corona Times is winging its own way along, such that one is bound to be confounded. This is […]

17 April 2020 I am not one for speeches, however, the two interactions, if you can call them that by PM Modi and Mr Rahul Gandhi, were simply too apart to compare. I don’t buy it when people take pole positions on their latest rounds, on the PM on 14 April and on Mr Gandhi […]

15 April 2020 –Capitalising Corona Virus Contagion It is very difficult indeed to keep away from Coronavirus and the developing scenario world wide with cases topping 2 million. However with nearly 125000 deaths world wide and a mortality of 21% of known outcomes, there is a great degree of surrealism that surrounds the entire exercise […]

14 April 2020 Never have so many owed so much to so few…these lines echo across times commemorating the great sacrifice of men and women of honour who wore a uniform and sacrificed everything for their flag. Of course, in modernity and recorded history, these words were uttered by Sir Winston Churchill on 20 August […]