India, March 27 -- We live in strange and unnerving times. India and the world are currently in the midst of a raging battle against a common enemy - Coronavirus. The total number of cases in India at the time of writing stood at 686 and the number of deaths at 13. Both these numbers, unfortunately, are expected to rise over the weeks that will follow. Numbers across the world are staggering. The death toll in Italy and Spain have reached in the thousands, eclipsing that of China's.

The most worrisome aspect of the virus is not the fatality associated with it - though for the elderly and those without adequate medical care this figure is frighteningly high - but its speed of transmission. The virus took just 67 days to reach the first on...