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Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Great Derangement’ and Public Response to Covid-19

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Great Derangement’ and Public Response to Covid-19

In the months following the emergence of the first known cases of the Covid-19 virus across several countries, the most common and immediate response observed in people was denial. Despite its rising numbers, a vast majority dismissed the virus as similar to one that caused the common flu, attributed Covid-19 deaths to undisclosed diseases and…

Childhood in contemporary India

Childhood in contemporary India

“Children are living beings- more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habitat around themselves” Rabindranath Thakur Childhood is the age through which socialization takes place to develop, transform and mould children into social actors. Though childhood is a natural stage lived by every individual, the ideas, norms, regulations and also the perception…