Gitesh Sinha

By some reports a whopping 200 million people had lost jobs by June 2021 in the silent job crash as much of the world stayed shut down and locked out in panedimic induced solitary confinement. The only visible cues , if one ever noticed was a steadily  growing  “ open to work ” tagged people popping up incessantly on professional networking apps . I too dismissed  these desperate online shout-outs as echo from some faraway universe . N evertheless it did made me feel a bit guilty of getting along too cosy on  extended 'work from home' life, as millions faced layoffs and jobless existence in outside world battling first millinal economic meltdown due to global pandemic. The news of mass terminations being handed out over the zoom video calls by so called responsible corporates,during such critical times further muddled  this dull picture. The  grinding office routine, with all the trappings of precarious  work life balance that I recented once now seeme...

Seems like the end of this world. The world pepped up on self-indulgent high of technological steroids, a robust global economy secure from any perceived threat, apart from pretentious climate mongers, the world in which, the humanity lived, stood unaffected for far too long. Then it all crashed. Like a make believe illusion of normal life and mythical blissfulness of existing in delicate bubble of “know all” digital age. Nothing of which really helped. All it took was a humble, benign and previously unknown mild flu to bring ceaseless enactment of macroeconomic soap opera to an abrupt halt. The world locked itself in. The whole idea of human endeavor based on collective pursuit of common goals whether business, education, sports, travel and governance, everything became irrelevant. Like proverbial Pacman it just ate into our civilized defenses of nationality, class, creed, faith, economy and medical progress. Breaking out at far off Wuhan in China...