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Didn't I tell you so! That Corona in the days to come would show its real colour! That it is in the mutation stage and might even assume the role of an invisible predator who has the capacity to squeeze out your lungs and finish you off! That is what the fiendish creature is doing now! As days pass by the number of deaths and confirmed cases is running ahead of human imagination in the whole world. India too is maintaining the same tempo. Still Corona is yet to reach that landmark of 10 per cent with regard to death and it seems the figure is a long shot for the micro-organism. Thank God, if it surpassed that figure or even reached near it would have been a fatal disaster of immense proportions, something that will resemble the Spanish Influenza tragedy of 1918 that had snatched away millions of lives. Despite this weak point of the virus, the death toll has crossed the 6 lakh figure. Whom to blame? Who is to be blamed for this mishap and reality? A naïve man may conclude that ...

So that is the situation that Corona has put us into. In fact, it has pushed the whole world into a quandary and all countries of the globe are training their guns at China, supposedly the mother of Corona from whose Wuhan city the virus emerged as if from a womb and wove its web of disaster all over the world. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is in a combat mood and ready to crush China for its dastardly act of spreading the virus deliberately, perhaps, aiming at an international catastrophe of all sorts and consolidation of its superiority in the world market. You can nick-name this as an example of market imperialism which Americans will easily understand. The country read China might have used the World Health Organisation or WHO to foist this fraud on the whole world as Trump and his aides believe.  The hue and cry for a ban on Chinese goods is only a tip of the iceberg. More such outcries are in the offing.   The impulsive assault by Chinese and the valiant fightback by In...