It appears the current pressure caused by the Indian variant of covid is unlikely to dissipate and give respite..what shall we do

We live in difficult times, indeed live in a  more turbulent period. Unless the governments act and people obey the laws of the road ,and co-operate with lockdown judiciously ,peace and quiet, job and growth, travel and merry making  will be a long drawn out process and we have to wait for the new new normal to arrive .

For the lesser privileged,for ages uncertainty about job and education ,have been haunting like ghosts and the main feature of life and now every step that they take dims their hope and disturb their determination and especially the migrant labour moves to their Home where there's nothing but love from nature and relations in village .

All of us are weighed down by the fear and just plain worn out unable to do anything.

It is not an easy moment for the economically impoverished  to get the necessary wherewithal.The mysterious disease has driven home that public health care system and universal vaccinations by the Government must be a norm independent of private sector network.

That is Amartya Sen matters and further means not Gujarat model and Jagdish Bhagawati will be just a matter of no consequence or significance.

It also underlines that the nation needs a leader who will not fool and behave like a baffoon but  can lead, set the pace,rectify the mistakes and plan for the rescue operation in both the short and medium run and take people and opposition into confidence .

We have seen the politicians of different shades waving their arm and shouting and more keen in winning election and they are scarcely visible now.

In this hour of crisis people have to help each other and quietly manauvre in learning lessons from survivors and educating fellow humans about the  impending danger of moving like a sheep in a herd mentality..

Let us hope that the semi virus which gets life only after entering into human body so to kill  the host will be cowed down by our tenacity and immunity...As it takes efforts to enhance its strength to cause havoc it goes without saying that  we too must augment our resistence and immune powers .It is a kind of war like situation.

Let us trust that the wheel of time will rotate with the grace of God deeply embodied  and we'll entrenched into health care workers, the frontline warriors and do the miracle and every cog in the administrative machine will  help the weak and the poor with all compassion and care.

Besides having faith  in the supreme ,the role of  science and rational attitude with heightened optimism when allowed  a free role  to play will go a long way in stamping out the cult of the devastating virus..

We can't be complacent and remain philosophical by saying it shall passe....if it is ...well and good .But the crude reality is already there is cry that Indian variant is  becoming strong and as someone wrote yesterday we will be lucky if it does not become Modi variant ..our inaction and bungling and our insensitivity in not taking care of the informal and migrant labour will have a serious consequences for the nation and huge spill over in the rest of the world inviting ridicule and retribution.