The war is on
Only this time, there are no combat air crafts, armoured vehicles or any artillery. No nation is engaging their fleet or ground force or in air strikes. No black outs or air raid shelters or sound of sirens. But there are casualties in hundreds and thousands and the cries of people losing their loved ones and…
The war is on
Only this time, the fight is not between any political ideologies. The communism, socialism, capitalism, monarchy or democracy, all nations involved and in fact, all on the same side of the war. Neither are there any dictators or revolutionists. But there are heroes, working day and night tirelessly on the front line sacrificing their lives on the line of duty and…
The war is on
Only this time, the usual suspects like oil, power display, religious conflicts, territory gain, terrorist activities or WMDs are nowhere in the picture. But there are people working frenziedly in labs on trials and tests to eradicate the invisible enemy and statisticians frantically drawing numbers analysing the impact and…
The war is on
Only this time, the enemy is not at the borders trying to cross over but it is inside already. On the roads, in the houses spread over everywhere, though ironic, waiting to be caught. It is not the first time we are attacked. The enemy has been warning us in different forms through the history; we kept chasing it away and gone back to our false security. So….
The war has been on
Only this time, the enemy came back spiked (literally too!!) and showed the world what was only seen in movies of apocalyptic genre. Locking down everyone behind the doors with no partiality for rich, poor, royals, commoners, privileged or underprivileged, the word ‘unprecedented’ has become the norm. Keeping any other historical events aside, the current generation can only describe this era as – the times when Corona was just a chilled beverage and the times after….
The war has been on
Only this time, people are kept apart individually but the entire world is united in the grips of the enemy. The fight we fight, the actions we take and the flattening of curves appear to be controlling the enemy; but in reality the enemy, having proven that size is just a word and how high the human intelligence may fly there is always some force to bring it to ground in no time, appears to be leading all of us into the unknown.
Born Of Dust 