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Social Distancing Challenges with CORONA: The Indian Context

Why #SocialDistancing is a #challenge in #India? My 7 challenges: 1. Dense population 2. Sanitation 3. Personal Hygiene 4. Survival need 5. Day wages 6. Communication 7. Seclusion Were the above issues taken into consideration when we adapted the social Distancing into our Indian context?? Lets see one by one!! 1. #Population - How can we be able to tackle the population who are at high risk? Going by the data where COVID19 affects the elderly and also who are less hygienic, how far we were able to address to that group of population's needs where we have them more in number and see them day in and day out. Is somebody talking to them or do they know such a virus is spreading around. Any measures to quarantine them is happening? 2. #Sanitation - Clean India campaigns even though been going around for many years now, still sanitation in public spaces, garbage collection / disposed area, neighborhoods, drainage leakages, are still a cause of concern. And we talk about ...

"Bounce Abuse: the story of a Road-side Romeo" - How we take care of something or someone who helped us!

As I got out from the delivery vehicle after being assembled, on to the stickering shop for a makeover to enhance my already glowing body in bright yellow, I was excited looking forward to my upcoming roles BOUNCING along with my fellow colleagues, who also followed the same routine. I was named "Romeo". The Road-side Romeo. We were taken again back on the vehicle on a comfy ride into the city where my colleagues got dropped off and I wasn't sure of my drop location, but I was still excited though to get my wheels on the road. Finally my drop spot came and I was carefully dropped along with a few of my colleagues in a space called "Bike Rentals". I was happy chilling under the shade before I could just get a feel of it, got a beep "Tring" which ignited the first life in me and from then on its never looking back "vroooooom.. vroooooooommmmmm.." across the streets around the coffee spots, parks, malls and luxury streets which was indeed th...