24/05/2020 Day 61 As cases continue to rise Indian states are preparing to lift the lockdown. Right now, it is a soup of rules and movement restrictions. Karnataka has imposed a quarantine rule on those arriving in the state. They will have to undergo seven days of institutional and seven days of home quarantine. Over … Continue reading Day 61: New normal and public policy
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Day 60: Dharampal and a visitor
Bapu Kuti, Sevagram. Wardha. 2019 23/05/2020 Day 60: Dharampal and a visitor “You know, I have beaten up so many people. The only regret I have in my life is that why didn’t I beat that guy on that day.”, said the visitor as he sat reflecting. I had a visitor after a long time. … Continue reading Day 60: Dharampal and a visitor
Day 59: India’s Covid Economic Package
22/05/2020 Day 59 The direct interfacing that governments across the world are now having with citizens is higher than normal times. With work from home being the default mode, it has opened up possibilities of watching press conferences on long play. In one of the important series, the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs held … Continue reading Day 59: India’s Covid Economic Package
Day 57: Nationalism and the pandemic
20/05/2020 Day 57 The conversations, experiences and debates generated in these months of the pandemic will probably become a genre - Corona Lit or some such. Some early material is already making its way to the publishers. Fang Fang, an award-winning writer from China kept an online diary about her life in Wuhan during the … Continue reading Day 57: Nationalism and the pandemic
Day 56: Our fragility
19/05/2020 Day 56 The world of today looks very different from the first day that Indians entered the lockdown. India has crossed 100,000 mark for cases of coronavirus infections. 3303 lives have been lost. The latest big victim of the virus is Brazil. In a span of a week the virus has burned through its … Continue reading Day 56: Our fragility
Day 54: Unravelling
17/05/2020 Day 54 Deep breathe, start the next phase. Lockdown 4.0 begins today. It has been extended for another fifteen days. Social, psychological and economic unravelling that has happened in these days is remarkable. In outdoor sports and adventure, we tend to deliberately seek adversity and experience hardship to push our limits of enduring the … Continue reading Day 54: Unravelling
Day 53: Seeking comfort in numbers
16/05/2020 Day 53 The counter continues to tick. It is more than fifty days, clearly in the ultra marathon zone. The conversations have decisively shifted. Beyond a point, more deaths is statistics. Not tragedy. Numbers have the ability to render an event into an objective occurrence and prepare them for inane comparisons with the historic. … Continue reading Day 53: Seeking comfort in numbers
