EXTRAORDINARY TIMES NEED EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES, BUT WHAT MEASURES?

Covid-19 in early 2020 which hasn’t yet been tamed despite near about year-long efforts

- BIMAL PRASAD MOHAPATRA

Introduction

During these extraordinary times, India needs extraordinary measures to mitigate the lurking danger attributed to the stealthy invasion of dreaded pandemic Covid-19 in early 2020 which hasn’t yet been tamed despite near about year-long efforts, external threat to her territorial integrity owing to land grabbing hunger of northern neighbor which is world’s second-largest military power and economy while being ruled by an autocratic regime, and internal socio-political unrests thanks to political intolerance towards the ruling party that dares to correct to some extent the historical wrongs – the first of the kind attempt since independence – done to nation’s culture, politics, society, education, ethos, etc. during the centuries-long rule of external forces and hasn’t stopped despite self-democratic-rule of more than seven decades.

Covid-19 invasion and its fall out on politics