This is second post in corona talkies. While no one is reading my blog page with me being away for more than 2 years still want to highlight standard disclaimer. Kindly don't take any of content personally and there isn't any intention to hurt any religious/political sentiment (or any sentiments which are larger than life).
We are living in world were few people have lost sense of what is right and what is wrong. And at same time we have animation series giving interesting perspective. As rubble from paw patrol quotes when his TV show is not coming because of faulty satellite which fell out of orbit and heading towards adventure bay to destroy the life - "I feel bad as I was only thinking about my TV show when entire adventure bay is in trouble". And at same time here we have few folks who were thinking only about their rituals and customs during such hard times which had impact on entire country. If it was not intentional then nothing worse than this and if it was intentional then guess it is state matter which they will handle anyways after appropriate investigation.
Disease which is not looking for country/religion/affluence boundaries and treats everyone equally to destroy and devastate life should be handled with utmost care. Follow every thing which you believe but only from boundary of your home in these hard times. As each person stepping out is increasing the risk of exposure to many other people over the period because of its contagious nature.
Migrants were another problem but with no work work, no money and no access to food topping it with risk on life with no roof on head - they hardly had any options until govt took notice of this problem and did arrangement for them. Obviously at heavy advertisement cost to spread the awareness but what was other option? [Couldn't find news link from moneycontrol which had an interesting perspective on this]. And if picked your interest and know bhojpuri/hindi you can listen to comment from Ravish Kumar an Indian journalist. Analyzing content will F your mind but always good to hear each side of stories.
Leaving aside all negative points, positive things that has happened with Corona lockdown from my perspective.
- Stock market are at sensible number upto some extent. I personally believe anything below 7K for NSE is at Sale which will be bigger than big billion sale. And as it happens during all sale, I end up not buying anything and story may not be different here as well - paisa nahin hai bhai.
- Kids and families are having some quality time provided they are together after settling down during past 10-12 days. First week may have been hard with lot of arguments (probably). After all, while adjusting with work colleagues during long work hour we had little time to argue back at home and probably forgot how to adjust for longer duration while being at home.
- Unprecedented order level for online grocery platform that they aren't taking any further orders. Only unfortunate part is they are constrained for delivery with reduced movement and lesser delivery folks(migrants?)
- Human side of people are visible (up to some extent) - be it paying their maid/house help even when they aren't coming home to work, or understanding that resources are scarce and limit the wastage and coming together to support our neighbors and society.
- Last but not the least pollution which unfortunately will be back once business as usual resumes. But it is unbelievable to see note that people that they are seeing himalayan range from Jalandhar and Burj Khalifa from Noida. Pollution hin kam huwa hai bhai, eye sight or bich ke opque item nahin gayab huwe hain. Will wait to hear soemone saying they are seeing Eiffiel tower from bangalore and statue of liberty from patna. Statue of unity nahin dikh raha tha kya bhai Noida se? Left mein thoda sar ghumate to dikh jaata.
Note - All links are copied from google search top result. Kindly don't assume those link to contain fact and can be considered as that person's/media house perspective only.
P.S. - Leaving it to your interpretation but remembered a sanskrit sloka from 7th Class NCERT Book (Obviously it is from Geeta) but had to share the source as always.
Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,
Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya Tadatmanam Srijami Aham.
Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya Tadatmanam Srijami Aham.
Praritranaya Sadhunam Vinashaya Cha Dushkritam
Dharamasansthapnaya Sambhavami Yuge-Yuge.