A Year That Made Science Groping In Dark, Yet Politics Had Its Pound Of Flesh! Only People Suffered

  • | Thursday | 14th January, 2021

BY DN SINGH

A year that must go down in history bringing reminiscences of a pandemic hundred years ago. When humanity was singed to death, science also failed and millions died. One of the most lethal blows but it had a lesson for all that, nobody is immune to certain ills inflicted by human itself. Yet we repeated the mistake and we live in suspense today banking on conjectures.

That the virus called Covid was an assault on the greed of the civilised lot which now cannot be hidden behind the intellectual puzzles of medical science nor even by political homilies.

Education, health, transport, economics and politics, all came to a grinding halt. The world faced an abrupt curfew and the entire humanity was taken as hostage by itself. It was all a downbeat mood that has left an indelible scar .

We were not ready to come closer to each other and the expressions of love or anger got morphed behind the

Pyres Kept Burning!

People died like insects and the pyres were never doused. Screams got buried under silence. Entire humanity was stalked by a fear of an invisible enemy which still stalks.

Hospitals turned as temples and the real temples were locked. Doctors, nurses and the entire medical fraternity turned as Gods. And those front line warriors faced the brunt.

Any assumptions about a preparedness through symbolic gestures like bells and lamps to fight the menace appeared to be overrated and hollow. Science failed miserably.

Rhetoric Couldn`t Veil Reality

To overcome the downbeat mood of the nation like India and elsewhere the words failed to veil the bottom realities that, an uncertainty would hunt for long time to come. Conjectures laced the horizon about the vaccine being readied and that still keeps eluding all.

The virus originated from an ill-conceived orchestration of the science from China and soon it had all in its grip. The mightiest of the world, America, was shown the mirror by the pandemic. Even rest powerful like Italy, France and UK suffered significantly, made to realise that stop tingling with the inferno of nature.

Yet Politics Survived

Political repercussions of the Covid had its telling impact on the most powerful political sovereign of the world, ejecting the American president Donald Trump, revealing his fouls in core issues those mattered the most. Rhetorical fence mending crashed like house of cards.

Joe Biden was ushered in yet, Trump abandoned the worst shock and gave way to an unprecedented incitement never seen before. He not only attempted an  assassination of rules but the uprise on the streets exposed the holes in a democracy which is an essential vessel of liberty.

But for India, inspite of the deadly headwinds of Coronavirus, politically  it was never so downbeat a situation under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Win in Bihar was a feat even the saffron think-tanks had not foreseen.

Sccess in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Manipur bye - polls were seen as people`s reaffirmed faith on Modi.

However Odisha under Naveen Patnaik has always remained an exception and so did it this time in the bye polls in 2020. Not only politically but at the Covid front also, Odisha government stood out with an enviable position thwarting the pangs of the contagion.

For the Congress 2020 remained monotonous with the cyclic poverty in its political credibility. Vote percent of the party nosedived down to five percent!

Some firebrand leaders got disillusioned with the dynasty and Jyotiraditya Scindia jumped to the BJP and a chatter in the political grapevine of the Congress is audible that all is not well with many.


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