LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA
“I don’t believe in God, but, I am afraid of him.” - Nobel Laureate Gabriel Gracia Marquez I have come to work. But, if I am told to go back home, I will… Yes, I will co-operate with the authorities to ‘fight’ the present situation. Perhaps, I can afford to go back home, even though the nature of my work – classroom teaching – makes it difficult for me to work from home. Anyway, I will still figure a way out to help my students, sitting at home… But, is that the answer to ‘fight’ this virus… rather any virus, for that matter? I think, we all have lost our collective ability to ‘fight’. We have become too ‘soft’, too ‘spoon-fed’ and, thereby, too ‘vulnerable to being ‘infected’ by all viruses, including the deadliest of all – ‘Fear’! Yesterday, I had to tell this to the doting parents of some of my students, when they were telling me: “Sir, they will have to commute by autos”… “Sir, they will have to com...