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It was too good to last. Few will be surprised that the truce between the BJP and the Congress lasted for only about a week. It was a temporary moratorium imposed by an unprecedented crisis, the like of which India hadn’t seen before. But the animus between the two parties is too deep-rooted for them to suppress or tide over.

Notwithstanding poor demand and production cutback across industry, contributions worth millions of dollars from business establishments are pouring in to government and non government charities ever since the nation went on a three-week lockdown to maintain social distance to prevent coronavirus from spreading.

The Indian system and her people were never so helpless than they appear to be today with their Prime Minister resorting to superstition to extricate people from terror of the pandemic corona virus even though the virus has the least impact compared to developed nations. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians to put off their modern lighting for nine minutes at precise nine o'clock, and stand in open space in their residences with the traditional lamps, candles, or any other light-source in their hands during that period. The directive is almost to say to go back to the preindustrial revolution era.

The dread of the pandemic corona virus has allowed a free play for human traits. Most do not see the light in the dark alley they are caught as the terror of corona virus spread mercilessly across the world. They are reducing to basic trait of holding, without comprehension of fuller facts, someone responsible for the abyss they are pushed into. They do not relish that nature has forced them all to live in ancient era but cannot locate the cause of the Nature’s fury. The ruling regime becomes target easy to blame for.

Crisis faced by India’s hundreds of thousands of migrant workers has shown that the Union government’s centralized command-and-control approach of managing the coronavirus pandemic (Covid 19) will not work. Recent steps, from the poorly planned lockout to the decision to shut down borders without consulting the states and use the high-handed approach to control people’s movements, rather developing systems to check and test at a massive scale to contain the spread of the virus, have caused terrible hardships for India’s teeming poor.

The lockdown to break the chain of spread of COVID-19 is an essential step. In the initial stages it was found that the people who had come from abroad, Indians or non-Indians, carried this virus with them. So they were screened at the airports and the suspicious cases were quarantined. Since this process was started quite late, therefore several people escaped the testing and many of them even returned after visiting India.

Even while India is in the midst of unprecedented coronavirus calamity and acute economic crisis, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been busy sharpening his charisma and perfecting image makeover by calling upon the people on Friday to hold a nationwide candlelight vigil at their homes this Sunday for nine minutes, beginning exactly at 9pm.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s light and sound show, or for the order to be right, sound and light show, as part of his national strategy to fight the coronavirus threat amounts to taking symbolism to the level of fantasy, or farce, as his detractors would rather like to consider it as.

India is in dark era due to unmitigated impact of the pandemic Corona virus brought to India by visitors. It pushed India in a dark age totally contrasting from earlier times to force humans to realize that their power, their money wealth and their personal beauty and environmental surrounding was no asset when nature makes them to fight for the oxygen to breath for life. It was critical time for political ideas and colours of identification were pushed aside to meet the challenge as the united body. Instead the different colours continue to assert.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala, which is engaged in a grim battle against the dreaded corona virus, suffered two setbacks on a single day.