Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

               My work continues relentlessly over the past weeks in the mid of the lockdown, playing my part to negate the ill-effects of lockdown. Among those who are very active during these times are health care workers, police personnel and those who are working from home. I am working on the ground during the first half of the day and from afternoon to mid-night, working remotely from home to attend my professional job. While many play the role of frontline workers or remote workers or don’t work at all, I am playing the multiple roles of frontline worker as well as remote worker as well as mid-night blogger. This simply means that playing these multiple roles has increased my workload during these lock down times. This is not under my control but simply happening as such. I hope my increased workload provides comfort to many during these tough times. I am working as a frontline worker laying myself prone to the v...

                 My weekly corona diaries are going on for the past few weeks for the need to contain the virus. Let me delve on some positives and negatives these lockdown days have brought for my own self. The lives of people all over the world have been affected by the virus. It has been the job of invisible miniature to spread a negative or positive aura over the humanity. Everyone has been restricted to homes and all those who lead normal lives before have seen a drastic changes in the lifestyle. It might take few months before we see a relapse of good(or bad) old days prior to corona. I gradually slipped into the new mode of living, working from home for most part of the day, away from office for a month till date. Going to office gave me a place to spend some time away from home but now I was blocked to enter any other place or get separated from family. Though it is not a problem, the problem comes with my...

                I have started to write these weekly wrap ups as an activity to get me occupied in this lockdown. I would like to challenge myself occasionally and this is one of those. After writing lengthy articles in the recent past these short write-ups became simple. It means if you run 20 kms once a month, running 10 kms once a fortnight will become easier. Try to increase your capacity and you will feel it easy when doing smaller works. This also gave me an opportunity to speak my mind more often. When you are immersed in writing something weekly, your mind will be kept busy and purposeful rather than stale and dull. Keeping it aside, my increased frequency also has to do with the virus pandemic. These are no ordinary days but something unprecedented which has made all the leaders at all levels work on the toes to ward off the virus threat and bring normality. I am a leader in my own capacity and everyo...

                It is unfortunate for all us to be found in this situation. Unfortunate that the virus decided to take down the humanity, unfortunate that more than 200 countries in the world are affected by this pandemic, unfortunate that more than 15 lakhs have contracted the virus, unfortunate that nearly 1 lakh have died, unfortunate that many state heads have to take the blame for failing to control the spread of virus or limit the infections and deaths. The responsibility for any calamity goes as much to the people as it goes to the heads of state. It is the people who make or break the leaders. Just for instance, going into this pandemic, the administration on the ground in Europe and U.S. was very careless and inferior. No one screened or quarantined the incoming traffic to these countries or take actions to restrict the origin of this virus in their countries. Just because no one could take a quick decision and avert the pandemic ...

               The world has been affected by a pandemic which has been unprecedented in recent modern times. In my thirty years of living, I haven’t seen days like these happen to me or anyone around. Life was normal and we expect the same environment to be prevalent always. But nature has its own ideas and the smallest of the micro living beings have brought the giants to its knees and caused a disruption of humongous proportion. The world is never new to these pandemics. Even before sophisticated days, in 1918, there is a H1N1 virus pandemic known as Spanish Flu which infected 500 million people or a quarter of the world’s population at that time. This virus killed 50 million or 5 crores making it one of the deadliest pandemics in the history. At present, 50,000 people lost their lives due to novel corona virus which means it is 0.1% of the death rate of viral pandemic of 1918 to 1920. The world bears the brunt...