The Covid generation: India's children stare at a grim and desperate future
Several e-platforms have been launched by the government to make education accessible to everyone, but these may not cater to children with special needs.
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The Covid-19 generation needs help. The pandemic’s worst disasters have taught us that it is better to prepare early.
Surviving a catastrophe requires resilience of the spirit, not just the body. Studies on the effect of the coronavirus wave on the Covid-19 generation children conceived, carried or born in the world around these times portend an alarming future for the new bunch. The template for the emotional and social wellbeing of these children is already being formed as alienation, parental job losses, deaths of family members, educational disruptions, domestic violence, forced home confinement, sexual violence, trafficking, child marriage, excessive digital exposure and warped human interactions have plunged the children of India, and humanity as a whole into an almost insurmountable crisis.