Pic : Venice   in Middle Ages Did you ever think you will see such a day? Across the globe, governments are doing everything to ensure people stay home. Some are urging us like Singapore, some are coercing like Russia,  some are imposing curfews like India. World leaders are holding press conferences covering wide range of subjects all the way from Billion $ Covid-19 response stimulus to asking people to stop hoarding tissue paper rolls. I read an article recently with a picture of Rajasthan and the headline said "will this town in India, be the next Italy". Being a hopeful Indian, I eagerly opened to read further, only to be disappointed. No points for guessing that the article was not about the progress but about Covid-19 effects. There are a hundreds of differences between India and Italy; economic status and population being the most obvious ones, but maybe we can draw subtle parallels between Italy and India, in-spite of these stark differences Italy and India