Lessons learnt while dealing with Corona pandemic.

                                       

                                     

Learnt to enjoy the silence around us due to frequent lock downs resulting in the stoppage of movements of humans and vehicles, and reduction in noise pollution level.

Learnt that, too much of anything is not good and the mass movement people and vehicles and destruction of natural resources have caused immense damage to the global environment

 Learnt about many health related matters required to protect ourselves from such dangerous viruses like Corona

Learnt about the methods of engaging the children productively for the whole day during the enforced imprisonment.   

Learnt to lead life without social events, guests and domestic assistants.

 Learnt many medical terms related to pandemic situations.

 Learnt  various ways of protecting ourselves from  falling victims  to the Covid 19 virus .

 Learnt to be empathic to the sufferings of less fortunate fellow human beings when they were deprived of their   earning so suddenly and for a prolonged period without any hope of restarting their normal work lives.

 Learnt about the need to save money for crises period.

 Learnt to realise our total dependency on various types of service providers and the significance of their economic role.

 Learnt the need to train the family members in division of labour to manage the household works when our domestic helpers were not available.

 Learnt to do minor repairs related to plumbing, carpentry and electrical works due to restrictions in the mobility of service providers related to these works.

 learnt to understand the hard work of mothers   related to  food , childcare, elders care, health care, house hold work, education  management etc.,

 Learnt to understand the miseries faced by the of daily wage earners families.

 To top it all, the nonstop coverage of the migrant worker’s hardships during their exodus from their work places to their native places by the media had shaken the collective conscience of the civil society. It was heart moving to learn about their working and living conditions and their exploitation by their employers.

Learnt about the methods of personal and environmental cleanliness to be followed throughout our lives  

Learnt to appreciate the hard work and sacrifice of the front line workers like police, health workers medical teams, conservatory workers and the media persons who have been dealing day in day out with the Corona pandemic.

 Learnt about the need to have savings to rescue us during crises and the economic ways of using resources.

Learnt about the living in peace despite constrains of many types due to family togetherness.

 Learnt to thank God for even small mercies especially when we happened to see the visuals of migrant labourers .

 Learnt to be kinder towards less fortunate people and be generous in extending assistance to them through various means.

 Learnt about the loopholes in our health care system.

 Learnt about the need to develop our immunity level through taking care of the quality of our diet.

 Learnt about the value of homemade food .Total  dependence on it led to improvement in our digestive system  and protected us from stomach disorders and helped saving considerable amount of money

 It is true that repeated lockdowns and absence of public transport restricts our freedom of movement and loss of earnings for daily wage earners. Staying within home for a long time with enforced idleness causes depression and   affects mental wellbeing. Nobody would have expected that the whole world would be affected in various ways by this one virus resulting in large number of deaths and paralysis of the economies. But we have learned to manage crises through knowledgeable ways of with grit and determination. This virus has treated rich and powerful nations and underdeveloped nations, richer and poorer sections of the people and all the sectors of the economy alike. It is indeed   is a virus of extraordinary nature endangering the lives of people  taught  us the need for international and  regional  cooperation  in taking coordinated   efforts to drive away the virus from this world

  

 

JEE and NEET Exams

Following closely all the news related to the education sector , one is forced to come the conclusion that, too much of  of discussion among the stake holders regarding education  reforms  has resulted creation of fear in the minds of the  students and the parents regarding their future. So much of uncertainty prevails in every issue connected to education .The editorial of the Hindu last week is right  stating that,  “extra ordinary circumstances may require extra ordinary solutions”. Heaven will not fall on humanity if the “medical admission are  made on the n basis of class X11 board exams, using standard normalization” as we have been doing all these years  .Is the central government  is of the opinion that, all the doctors who  are  the products  of the hither too existing system  and practicing within and out side the  country are substandard in quality of their service?  The JEE examination also can not be conducted  in so many centers located all l over the nation without constraints to the students and the parents especially, when public transport system  is absent in many states .  If these admission are to take place after considerable delay due unexpected problems , more harm can be expected.  Priority should be given to the life security of the candidates and administrators  of the NEET and JEE  examinations  . Reforms  can wait   till the pandemic is over.

 

prasanth Booshan

The civil society  finds it very strange to observe the adamancy of the  bench of the  Supreme  Court that deals with  the contempt case on lawyer Prashanth Booshan  in punishing him despite observations of the legal  scholars, retired judges, Legal administrators, senior and eminent lawyers quoting many legal arguments in support of the view that  , he need not be punished in this case.  Two questions arise in everyone’s mind regarding this case.  They are-whether the Supreme  Court’s prestige and honour would be protected when it punishes  Prashath Booshan  by all means or  it would be enhanced  by stopping with giving Prashanth Booshan advice regarding their expectation from a senior lawyer  who was unhappy  over  some defects ( in his view ) in the justice delivery system in the recent past? Is it not a fact that in a democracy no constitutional body can behave like a monarch and should be subjected to checks and balances while using power? .

 

Boomi pooja in Ayodhya

The media has given wide coverage regarding  the Boomi Puja in Ayodhya for Ram temple and selected electronic media channels has given nonstop coverage of the event , hailing it as historic and peaceful event and insisted on the point that, no protest and “anti national “incidents took place. One should belong to the affected communality  to understand  the pain and the impotent anger, the mental stress  over the fear  of losing the  secular feature of this nation very soon .The silence over  “great justice” rendered by the Supreme  court related to the construction of a new Ram temple, “ butchering of thousands of Indians in the wake of Advani’s chariot of fire and the aftermath of razing of Babri Masjid” (Mani Shankar Iyer”)  is a silence born, resulting in  worry over the future policies and programmes  of this nation  which are likely change the social structure of India.  It is very strange to watch the efforts of the Congress Party to prove that, they are also” more Hindu” forgetting totally the Nehruvian ideologies and even afraid to declare openly that, they are for secularism since, it has become a bad word in today’s India and may cost them votes.