As this extraordinary year comes to an end, here are some lessons. The world’s initial response to the pandemic was extraordinary. (One sentence no writer has written in any language is, ‘We live in very ordinary times’) But then ordinary people demonstrated that the conjecture of District 9 was correct; they cannot live in marvel for long. First, China responded to a mysterious disease by enforcing an extraordinary lockdown of a large part of its territory. Seven, India fails its poor because it treats its poor as poor.

Source: Mint December 27, 2020 15:22 UTC