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 I...

Coronavirus a.k.a Covid-19 is the invisible, invincible virus that came and reset our laptops and entered our heads while the anti-virus was scanning. Alas, it was scanning the wrong place. Like psychologists suggest, every human has two sides. While we are naturally getting attracted to the startling apocalyptic news items, we have a hidden die-hard optimist inside,  who must be intensely looking for signs that point to the end to this mayhem. Today we have more than 300,000 Cases across the world and "new cases" graph is only going up and up. The death toll graph is  pointing upwards as of now and from the ~100,000 "closed cases", 12% have ended up with death.  These numbers can push up the stress levels, for sure. But, only if you feel like you have to protect yourself from it. Don't get me wrong, but for a change try pretending like you already have the virus and just don't want to pass it to anyone. This way, complying to the directives of Socia...