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Two school children didn’t think twice to dip into their pocket money and donated their entire savings to fight the Corona virus. From tiny tots to individuals, associations, entrepreneurs to organizations, corporate houses to celebrities from sports and arts, the enthusiasm to do their bit in tackling this pandemic is something to cheer about. Reports of such spontaneous charity and generosity are proof of humanity and compassion amidst distress, offering a ray of hope to people who are otherwise resigned to a reign of hatred, violence, corruption and degeneration of values in the system. The spirit of humanity shown by NGOs, the societies, the groups of individuals, the salaried, software engineers and countless such people who are better placed having the resources, in coming to the aid of the migrant workers, the jobless and the poor and the needy by setting up make-shift tents, food and offering a caring net represent a picture of wrapping their arm around these unorganized s...

 The nature continues to send signals and we continue to not read them. The nature continues to warn us and we continue to ignore it. Every such occasion was a life lesson we ought to have learnt. We are paying a heavy price for our irrational defiance and abuse of nature by not heeding to the universally acknowledged philosophical message, ‘thus far and no further’. In Mahabharatha, Krishna warned Shishupala that he would be forgiven for one hundred sins. Shishupala arrogantly did not heed it and continued to commit outlandish acts. When he was about to commit his 101st sin, Krishna was forced to use his Sudarshan Chakra to slit Shishupala’s throat.  The craving for golden deer by Seetha in Ramayan caused untold miseries and Duryodhana’s hunger for power in Mahabharath resulted in conflict, confrontation and destruction. These are prime examples of greed. As a corollary, shouldn’t we follow a path of social harmony, peaceful co-existence to avoid the wrath of nature’s fu...