Quickly without looking in the calendar tell me what day it is today or how many weeks have passed since you have been in quarantine? If you hesitated a little or were unsure about the answer, you’re not alone. Most of us have gone through the same phase. This COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives completely. Our mobility is severely restricted and this crisis has disrupted the ‘Temporal agency’ that is our ability to maintain, manage, structure, and manipulate our experience of time. Uncertainty has taken over; a feeling of being stuck and unable to plan anything for the future, is what is happening right now. We don’t know exactly when we will be able to meet our friends, family and other loved ones or when will we able to go out on a vacation again. For a moment, this time can feel like something that drags on forever yet somehow these past few weeks have gone by with a blink of an eye. This has happened as our sense of time has broken but that doesn’t stop the hours and week fro
If we look back in history we will find that human greed has accompanied us for a very long time now. Be it greed for more power, more money, more followers, or more resources, we humans never fail to destroy rather ‘utilize’ anything and everything to its core, which usually ends up getting extinct or defunct. We belong from an era that might call creative self-destruction. In the same manner that diamond cuts diamond, we humans cut others in order to boot up what we already have. But here's the thing, we might have pushed our environment too far. What if our greed is responsible for this situation we are in? Our generation has never experienced anything like COVID-19 before, one virus that has locked down almost the whole world. Now that roads are often ‘car-free’, the pollution has reduced and we see elephants roaming in the roads of Dehradun or leopards walking inside and out a mosque in Hyderabad which simply implies the fact that this planet belongs to others as well. This vi