2020: Year The World Shut Down
Poonam I Kaushish
How does one begin an epitaph of the year gone by? Uncork the champagne and roll out the drums? By welcoming 2021 on the wings of new hopes, dreams and promises? Or twelve months of steady downhill with no barrier to stop the slide? Clearly, 2020 will go down in history as a tumultuous year. Yet, hope smiles from the threshold of the year gone by, whispering, it will be happier. Will it?
We live in unprecedented times as people globally try to make sense of how Covid 19 has shut down and changed the world like no other. It has held humankind hostage in its vicious tentacles, made us realize how frail we are, need to change our lifestyles and habits when faced with stark and brutal statistics: Those dead from this pandemic is creeping towards the two million mark and has nations fighting the crisis on a war footing.