Learning from Lockdown: Towards a new hope
Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore The world today is definitely experiencing what Murakami shares as a sentiment in his novel ‘Kafka on the Shore.’ Life was happening to everyone the way it used to. There was nothing that could possibly disturb our daily routines, our conversations so much that we would be forced to question it. Somehow, we as a human race had never fathomed a situation for which we were not prepared individually or collectively. And then happened the most incredible event in the history of mankind for which no political or financial policy was ever thought of. The world was slowly hit by a disease that felt like war. A microscopic virus brought the world to its knees and we could not do anything...