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Is India progressing forward or backwards in time during this

2020 Corona breakthrough?

JYODHIS K BABY

India today, is the focal point of the entire world. With the COVID 19 disaster, India has stolen the limelight on
the world’s stage. With an effective plan of action though India has distanced itself with physical barriers, it has

effectively glued together the minds and spirits of people.

Believing in the phrase ‘Time and Tide wait for no man’, Indians have tended to be very busybodies, trying to
save everything but time to spend with their family. Therefore, surrounding themselves with a black hole which

absorbed all their time and efforts leaving them with nothing to live life qualitatively with. In 2020, Though the

phrase negative has received much positivity around the world.
I believe the 2020 lockdown not just paused the spread of the virus but inspired Indians to pause life. Grownups

who used cellphones to monitor time looked to the sky to understand time.

With limited food and convenience options, people have returned to their forefather's ways of growing
healthy food. All Mothers Have turned their pans from fast food heating options to Home food healthy op-

tions with their healthy cooking. Children have turned their eyes from technology-based games to helpful indoor
board games. Siblings get more time to play with each other.

Though places of worship have been shut down, planes of worship have risen out. Virtual space has been the
best tool to implement this. I Believe that India may be called a developing nation but this Coronavirus has modi-

fied Indians though not economically but mentally into a developed nation.

Though we are surfing fast forward through the tide of time, this fast-paced progression has paused our clocks
and taught us to count each moment and each blessing as it goes by.

I dedicate a special salute to our government officials, health officials who have risked their lives to care for ours.

Let us pay our tribute by remaining home, obeying rules and regulations and praying for them. Let us remember
all Indians are one and united to save the nation. Proud to be an Indian.

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