NEW DELHI, June 8 -- "You know something," whispered Democracy, sitting at the Lincoln Memorial, and looking ruefully at Autocracy and Monarchy, "I feel small, insignificant and very inadequate at this moment in time!"

"Inadequate in the handling the Covid-19 situation?" laughed Autocracy.

"No!" said Democracy, "I feel that during this whole world wide Coronavirus panic, when people should have been turning to me, they've been turning instead to you both!"

"And rightly so!" said Monarchy and Autocracy together, "People want to see strong leaders making firm decisions!"

"Even if those decisions are wrong?" asked Democracy, "What I Democracy believe is that collective thinking brings out sensible ideas!"

"More a chaos of opinions!" said ...