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COVID 19 in the year 2020 made it to history rendering the most days of the year unproductive and difficult for the entire population of the world. To be agreed upon? Or disagreed? Or maybe it is safe to both? A short introduction about COVID 19 for those reading it after a few years! It is a virus that created a pandemic situation in every nook and corner of the world killing over 1.22 million people. Now have I left you wondering how it has helped living beings? You will find the answers to your questions shortly. Until 2020 we were all running a rat race for money, wealth, comfort, luxury and most people even for survival among the fortunate others.  And when more money offered, the more we followed the vicious circle guilt free. Throughout this race, we forgot, denied Mother Earth and humanity. Every story needs a twist, isn’t it? Unfortunately this too had a twist. It is called COVID 19. It ruined the livelihood of millions in different forms: job loss, loss of financial indep...

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...

    The triumphant Corona virus is smashing ahead with all the virulence and intensity that it can afford in its nascent stage. Mind you, the mutation stage is in process and there is no guarantee that this devilish micro-organism will not assume more devastating proportions. The mankind which has already been brought to its knees may even be forced into prostration in the coming days or months. Such is the speed and venom with which this  (arguably the most feared of all) virus is galloping ahead like a warhorse numbing every economy not only the budding but even the matured ones in its stride to the extent of grinding to a halt the everlasting phenomenon called life.  Will life stop forever? Even Gods may keep mum on that question because he may not be sure about it! Let us skim through the six-month-old history of Corona since it made its scary presence felt in December last or January beginning and the hellish ramifications that it unleashed. Aft...