The Beginning The biggest casualty of the Pandemic was the education sector, especially the K-12 schools and its children. What we saw in the initial days was localised fire fighting based on the logic and knowledge of individual educators. Even over a year down the line, the fact remains that we are still left with no standardised guidelines that could practically be followed by all schools. As the health workers took the spotlight, fighting a collective battle mostly following standardised procedures to protect people from the virus, the academicians were left in the dark to fight a lonely battle to protect their children from learning gaps, anxiety and mental distress. Governments across the world did their PR stunts in all possible ways to stay connected with its people in distress. Most IT firms, health equipment manufacturers and distributors were looking ahead to create a fortune in the new world order. In all this chaos, the only ones who did not really figure u
The Prelude Once upon a time... on a fine day in January 1818, the British East India Company and the Peshwa faction of the Maratha Confederacy fought a battle that would later come to be known as “The Battle of Koregaon” (a.k.a the Battle of Koregaon Bhima). As they fought for nearly 12 long hours, till the Peshwa's troops ultimately withdrew, Captain Francis ‘Staunton’, who led the Company troop in defending their position, didn’t have the faintest clue, that 200 years later, another man sharing the same letters of his surname, will stand murdered in the name of events that would be weaved out from this very battlefield – The Bhima Koregaon! Back in time Once upon another time... in a place called Jharkhand, there lived a man who documented the monstrous profits made by big corporations, and the price that poor people dependent on the land and forests had to pay for this to happen! He spoke of the manner in which land was acquired at dirt prices for power plants, and ho