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#Corona Chronicles: Masked Crusaders!

8 Jul 2022 In the back drop of freshly reported variant of concern (voc) from India, which is currently dubbed Omicron2.75 ( is it because coincidentally it could be 2 & 3 quarters as potent in transmission as the original Wuhan strain?) we can take a fresh look at how at a fundamental level we […]

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WMD: The Corona Whodunit?

02 June 2021 It must be the most bizarre idea which over the days and months, got into textured layering and nuance that we are now witness to what can be called the acknowledging of the plausible…The origin of this SARS CoV2 has been such an humdinger! In a normal course of our human experience, […]

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Discomforting Answers Simple Questions: India’s Duet with Covid19

13 May 2021 Was science ever at the heart of India’s Covid Strategy? This question is repeatedly raised in my mind, because, no amount of answering it waters it down. Not just the simple rejection of R0 or Rt number in the very early days of last February/March when the strategy to fight this pandemic […]

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India’s Covid Fight Back

30 April 2021 This is probably the bleakest moment for many Indians who rose out of poverty and made material success and celebrated Indian spirituality as they understood it, the pulpy Ramanand Sagar TV opus form, and who were looking to scale even greater heights under Mr Modi’s leadership. The way India is now taking […]

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India’s Covid Moment: Crisis Catharsis?

27 April 2021 Right now it seems like each moment is an eternity, there appears to be a Dance of Death, one that plays out with people struggling, gasping as if in a trance, before dropping dead. The science of Corona viruses and particularly that of this SARS CoV2 with her posse of variants of […]

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Corona Chronicles: Tragedy of the Commons

08 April 2021 If there is one major defining moment for this Pandemic it is actually the role of populism and by extension prejudices in the management of the Pandemic so far. More than a year later, one cannot do much on Twitter other than report a handle in categories other than what it should […]

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#Covid19 Corona Chronicles: Kerala is still great! We all need to!

08 March 2021 Shailaja Teacher can take a bow even now. It is not possible to sustain a campaign over a year is what folks will have us believe in India. Of course, God’s own country first responded with the memory and the strength of having dealt with Nipah an experience the rest of India […]

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#Covid19: The Corona Chronicles-Sum of All Failures & Ethics in Covid Times

10 February 2021 We can first make some postulates about these ethical templates so that we can examine the major faultlines that fractured our scientific community in this Pandemic.Firstly I shall use no jargon, no terminology because my intention here is not to create a set of new theories, rather it is an attempt to […]

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Corona Chronicles-Trump versus Corona

4 October 2020 Right now, it is clear that the pandemic is still raging. Yet, it is also clear that much of the world’s energies are focused on trying to prove or disprove the early ‘pet theories’ people had conjured, interestingly from the non virologist community about the ‘Satan Bug’. Rather than wait for fuller […]

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