The rising second wave of Covid-19 in our country has become a Tsunami. We are facing what Jacques Derrida might call a rapture event. Etymologically, the word event has a disruptive meaning. It has a sense that implies: ‘to come out or fall out’. We have to agree that we are in a state of collapse. Our medical infrastructure...
The Loss of the Right Choice: Ethical Quandary in the Wake of the Pandemic of Coronavirus
The fact that one can almost cough one another to death has opened a moral quandary in the wake of the global pandemic of coronavirus. Every human person has to face the possibility of being both the victim as well as the vector of a lethal infection. Hence, we are robbed of our ability to do the right thing...
Learning, Unlearning and Relearning
Coronavirus has put us all into catastrophic and heart-rending conditions. People are dying gasping for breath. But we saw a blatant unpreparedness of the Government and appalling insensitivity of the ruling benches that seem to direct all energies into winning elections forgetting the sufferings and deaths of the people. If this attitude to win elections and even to build...
LOSS OF RIGHT CHOICE: Ethical Quandary in the Wake of Coronavirus
Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic along with large scale destruction of human life has triggered a collapse of our moral principles and ethical values. We are facing an inescapable ethical responsibility as we seem to have a new power to cough another person to death. This study attempts to seek an equate response to our moral quandaries. The study attempts...
