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There are enough evidences that support that more than the cure, which often takes time to be developed, it is the human behaviour and awareness that goes the long way in the fight against any deadly virus. Be it Ebola of West Africa around 2014 or Polio that troubled India since late 1970s till 2012, what helped big time in the fight against these viruses were active mass participation of communities and change of behaviour to better the living conditions. To analyze how India should move forward in its fight against COVID-19, let's try and draw some insights from our fight against Polio. In 2009, India reported the 741 Polio cases, more than any other country. The country faced unique challenges in its fight against this virus. Some of the major ones were high population density, poor sanitation, widespread diarrhoea, and reluctance of many communities to accept the vaccine. It was a humongous task for the Government and the health agencies to overcome these constraints so ...

If you aren't spending most share of your time every day in lock down staring at a screen, you are definitely a sage. But if you are somebody who has become a slave to the screen, that's fine as well. For some of us, it's our office work that keeps us glued to our monitor or mobile screens, for some, it's the online classes, and for others, it's their own reasons of doing so. So it isn't surprising to see web applications for meetings and video conferencing like Zoom, Google Meet, and many more, gaining the limelight all of a sudden since the pandemic took over our freedom to meet people in person. But it isn't just this pandemic which has increased our urge to stay connected all the time. If you notice, the history of existence of phone calls and text messaging for conversation dates long back that most of us can't recall a day when we weren't having them in our lives. The reason behind all of these is to reduce the distance which is there when we a...