Subhasis Banerjee

COVID-19 & WE HUMANS Since my very childhood, I have been hearing a very common phrase from my parents, grandparents, teachers & all elders, whenever times were testing, personally or in general, that “Life Is Not A Bed Of Roses”, as you all have probably heard. But today, in a matured age, I can very well understand its implication amidst the bleak pandemic that has engulfed us. We are all marooned in our own homes, closeted by the nefarious Corona Virus, anxiously trying to fathom our future, although there is not even a glimmer of light in the horizon till date. Uncertainty is looming large on our lives – physical, mental & economical. We are suffocating under a diabolic challenge. Our vulnerability is palpable & our existence is at stake. Visuals of streaming dead bodies globally are making us more fearful. We are awed to the hilt. But amidst all this, Life is teaching us oracular lessons. COVID-19 is not sparing anybody irrespective of class, colour, ...

CORONA VIRUS IN THE CONTEXT OF NATURE For over a century, we humans, the self-proclaimed ‘Superiors’ of the animal kingdom, have fingered Mother Nature relentlessly in spite of living in its womb & now it’s the Nature’s turn to finger us. It warned us for the last few years with missiles like SAARS, EBOLA & NIPA along with high-speed #climatechange, but no one seemed to bother. Now, under the lethal attack of #coronavirus we are suffocating to survive. We humans are responsible for this humongous blunder & there is no one else to blame. See, no other member of the animal kingdom has been affected by this virus. What did we learn from this? That Mother Nature has its own ‘auto-clean’ system that it uses to flush out malwares as & when they try to subvert its system. For easier understanding, when we cleanse our computer’s hard disk with whatever antivirus software of cache, registry & traces & restart our computers, they automatically start functionin...