Corona grave truth
CORONA- GRAVE TRUTHS Just when the jokes and gags about 2020 being a ‘CURSED’ year began dying out, 2021 caught the world’s most populous democracy (iNDIA) napping as the second wave of corona hit India in the face. In a matter of weeks, the country was brought to its knees and the drumbeats of death reached a macabre crescendo by late April. Friends, relatives and people we knew well began to die and every ring of the telephone became a moment of cold sweat for each one of us. This was not the case in the first wave when the casualties were fewer and further between. But there is a flip side to that argument- both in practical terms and in philosophical terms that I wish to say here. All those who gleefully blame the central government or any of the state governments for not doing enough on the vaccine front, the oxygen front, the hospital bed front or the Remdesivir front need to sit back in reflect. Did not many of us in January 2021 heave a sigh of relief after almost a year o