Goa, July 3 -- We are at the beginning of the end, waiting for a new beginning.

Frequent visits to shopping mall, movie theatre, dining at restaurants, celebrating birthdays with friends, holiday travel, gym classes, family visits, hugs and handshakes - all rescinded from our list of privileges! Have you ever cherished your visits to these places with attitude of gratitude in the past? Doubtful, worse still we humankind took everything granted and continue to exploit/spoil environment for selfish goals.

Yes, changes happened after World War I & II and after earlier pandemics, but Covid-19 created the big time change of peacetime which is history-defining. May be we are the last generation with experience of watching movies in cinema halls...