ragsSecond Wave of COVID Pandemic World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic in March 2020. Since then, countries around the world have seen a high rate of infections that still continues, a year later. In India, we had the first wave that peaked in September, and gradually subsided. By January the cases…
Category Archives: COVID-19
Mental Health Issues in Children During COVID19 Pandemic
Jai GoDuring the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, parents have been known to rightly give a great amount of attention to the physical health of their children. However, they are not comfortable addressing any issues concerning mental health in their children in most cases. Parents certainly notice a change in behaviour in their children by norms of being…
The ‘new normal’ – Citizen Social Responsibility (The other CSR)
The ‘new normal’ – Citizen Social Responsibility (The other CSR) Enough has been written and said about the pandemic and how it has transformed lives. There are the obvious things such as working from home which we live everyday. Equally obvious are things we see, such everyone wearing masks. But, there are many less obvious…
Food For Thought!!
Food For Thought!! Covid times have re-emphasized the importance of diet. We are all eating nutritious food, & are very conscious of eating a good amount of fruits & vegetables, consuming proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins & minerals in the right proportions. We are being very careful while buying food items, checking out their nutritional values…
CARPE DIEM
CARPE DIEM ‘Focus on the good and the good increases’ Finally, the year 2020 has come to an end. The year that we areprobably going to remember forever. The catch here is that the year has been memorable not just because of the emergency created by the pandemic but also because of the opportunity that many people…
Learning to cook in 14 days!
Learning to Cook in 14 Days! It is 15th August 2020, our Independence Day! Jai Hind to all my fellow Indians! Just before my lunch break I connect with Mrs. Sudha Moorthy (No No…not the Infosys Matriarch) a 52 year old lady now living in Pune, Maharashtra. This is a Telephonic Follow-up call for persons…
Where there is a heart, there is a way! | My StepOne Journey
Where there is a heart, there is a way! | My StepOne Journey When this year, 2020, started, scarcely did one think of how it would evolve. Come March 2020, the whole of humanity was enveloped in a crisis. As my organization declared work-from-home for 3 weeks in a row, followed by a country-wide lockdown…
I have met GOD!
l have met GOD! It is 7 pm when Mr R. Iyyer (78 / M) picks up my call. I hear Beethoven’s 5th Symphony playing in the background as a deep voice says “Hello! May I know who is calling me?” I quickly introduce myself and state the purpose of my call is to inform…
Mobilizing Responses to the Pandemic – Aligning Forces
Such an initiative demonstrates the potential long-term value created by acting as a force multiplier to alleviate some problems in the last-mile delivery of public health delivery systems.
Life does not stink!
I cheered her up by sharing the fact that young people with Covid-positive status, who have Anosmia, meaning have lost their sense of smell, seem to have the least virulent strain of Covid-19 virus as shown by the global data.