India, April 8 -- These are hard times, life has changed dramatically for all of us in the past few months, weeks, days and is now changing by even hours. What started as few news alerts at the beginning of the year 2020 has exploded into a pandemic the likes of which we have never encountered, not as a generation, not as people - ever. The words fall short to describe what the world is going through, right now.

From where we stand today, it seems that the ripple effect of this pandemic on the social and economic fronts will be long term, far-reaching, and the world will need a lot of time to be back to how we knew it.

The situation is grave at the business front. New dynamics are being created, with lockdown of the physical boundaries ...