Global scenario, particularly in the self-declared developed countries and that in India are strikingly contrasting on many counts in the ongoing Covid-triggered crisis. The vast differences in the pace of its spread, number of victims testing positive and fatalities in the countries of Europe as well as America compared to the respective phenomena in India portrays the land, its leadership and the people at large as an unparalleled example of courage conquering crisis. The need to be steadfast and not slip into a mood of relaxing hereafter cannot be over exaggerated. The charge that China is the villain as the originator of the menace and launched a biological warfare to destroy the economy of its rival has gone viral. This battle between the world’s two leading economies, boasting GDP several times that of most other countries should remind Mysureans of the Kannada proverb “Ganda hendira jagaladalli koosu badavaayithu.”
In times of many calamities in the past, blamed on nature, forgetting the well-known misdeeds of human beings hurting the health of other life forms, people of the country have largely depended on administration to retrieve normal life. One has every reason to feel gratified this time that people from all walks of life and the many sectors of the economy in private management have risen like one man as it were by cohesive acts.
