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How to Stay Productive Amidst the Deadly COVID-19 Second Wave

Reading Time: 4 minutes India is about to reach half a million reported COVID19 cases a day. Your Whatsapp is beeping every minute. Every single group – work, friends, hobbies – is full of SOS messages. There’s no oxygen, there are no beds, there are no medicines. Most likely there are people in your family/ extended family, close friends who are down with Covid19 (If you/ immediate family have been infected, you can skip reading this article for now. Ensure you have consulted a doctor and are following the prescribed medication/ next steps) It’s a working day. How do you focus and stay productive …

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Temporary street shop in Kolkata, India during lockdown

COVID-19: I Think We Fucked Up

Reading Time: 6 minutes I think we fucked up. But also got lucky. We will also have tremendous collateral damage. Am talking about India’s COVID-19 response and below are my non-data based inferences and a retrospective view of the last 3 months. Let’s start with why India entered a lockdown We are unarguably the world’s largest third world country. Some parts may look like the first world and even have those benefits, but never be fooled. We aren’t even second world. And even the most deluded of governments cannot make the mistake of thinking so. Thankfully, ours didn’t. The lockdowns were needed and have done …

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