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Valuable TEN LESSONS FOR A POST- and societies co-existing
in a now more than ever
prescription PANDEMIC WORLD inter-connected world.
Fareed Zakaria
The titles of most of
W.W. NORTON & COMPANY the ten lessons for the
T’S INDIA’S LOSS and Rs.473 post-pandemic age are
America’s gain that Pages 224 self-explanatory, but not
IMumbai-born, Yale and all. The first lesson titled
Harvard grad Fareed Za- ‘Buckle Up’ is mysteri-
karia has made his career ous. It advises people
in the US rather than in anchor of a CNN current global impact of the novel and governments to take
India. Over the past two affairs television show Coronavirus, a “single our collective foot off the
decades, he has emerged which has a viewership of particle about 1/10,000 GDP growth foot-pedal.
as one of America’s most 220 million worldwide. the size of the period Urgent collaborative ac-
respected public intellec- Although Zakaria’s (full-stop) that ends this tion is needed to prevent
tuals — author of The F u - books and TV show tend to sentence,” Zakaria believes environmental destruc-
ture of Freedom (2003), be US-centric, he does oc- that we now live in a tion by resource extractive
The Post- A meric an W orld casionally comment on the radically altered “post- industries, greedy meat
(2008), In Defence of mess in the country he left pandemic world” which consumption which has
Liberal Education (2015), behind. But on the whole, will “not reshape history prompted cruel, inhumane
and now the title under re- his comments on India’s so much as accelerate it” factory farms — “the best
view. That’s in addition to national development ef- — a new post-pandemic — way to select for the most
having served as editor of fort and current progress “world on steroids”. The dangerous pathogens
N ew sw eek I nternational in that direction are less purpose of this work of possible”, decimation of
and Foreign Affairs, col- than complimentary. penetrative insights is to glaciers, rivers, forest and
umnist at Time and ash - Be that as it may, provide important advice mountains, in retrospect
W
ington Post, and weekly because of the unforeseen to national governments rightly worshipped for pro-

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