Let’s be honest to admit that we have not been able to handle the pandemic as effectively as we should have and perhaps could have. While citing reasons may produce long list of responses that were found missing, if we try to get to the roots, we may come to just one conclusion. More than anything else it was a...
People are talking again, same people, same things. We are as clueless as we were during the previous surge of Corona. Masks, social distancing, sanitisers and lockdown are our mainstay. As to the medicines no one knows which one is working and for whom. Admittedly we have not grown any wiser despite spending billions. Vaccinations of course have come as...
As the second round of Corona scare grips the world as many had predicted, mass hysteria of gargantuan proportions seems to be building up again. Psychologists may call this reaction a paranoia that seems to affect large sections of the people all over the world. And Corona is not the only worry. US is worried about the gun purchases reaching...
Newspaper stories these days are depressing. Reading them, we realise that humans are still where they were in the stone age days. Psychologists rightly conclude that you can take the man out of Stone Age but you cannot take Stone Age out of man. Progress does not seem to be the law of life as said by Robert Browning. How...
Corona is back. As state after state once again are resorting to night curfews and lock downs, a big issue is do we still have any concrete idea of the pandemic, its origin and nature and the solutions. Apparently not, as we continue to grope in the dark. What about the measures we took, the medicines that were prescribed and...
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Prof. Pramod Pathak
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad
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