New Delhi, April 20 -- For Christians, this year's Easter may be best described as a 'quarantined Easter'. It could remain imprinted in the minds of this generation for many years to come. The unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19, the positive cases and deaths continue to alarmingly and exponentially rise. Figures of infected cases and deaths go out dated by the day. Forced to cancel celebrations, courtesy lockdowns, campuses of basilicas, cathedrals and churches all over the world were deserted on Holy Week and Easter Sunday, the most significant festival in the Christian calendar.

This extraordinary situation makes one recall the first Easter in history. The maiden Easter 2000 years ago was a 'quarantined Easter'. As per biblical ac...