Have we lost the feel?

Have we lost the feel?

Two years could seem like forever. It surely did during the last couple of years, On March 20, 2020, the world changed for us in India. The first of the lockdowns was officially announced. The first days of masked humanity, locked up at home, cowering in fear. We were asked to stay back and do nothing. We stopped shaking hands and patting each other’s backs. Even our smiles were pretended and labored.

The news was full of illness related news. There were numbers flowing in with statistics. New words took shape and so did new ways of life. Nothing was as it was. All pretenses of importance disappeared. All of a sudden the hugely busy man with a hectic schedule and the lazy bum were both cooped up at home with nothing but fear. The roads were empty

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives. Governments are taking precautionary measures to prevent the spread of this infection of novel corona virus. In this emerging society one thing is also evolving which is our Education system. Colleges, Universities and schools are closed with no certainty to when it will be open. Though there is need to adopt new changes in education system. Technology has become the life saver for the students in this time. There are several set of guidelines and plans issued by the government. Online classes, entrance tests, Boards examinations, admissions, competitive examinations are the new normal for India. E leanings are the new sources for both students and teachers. The sources which are strictly prohibited to be brought up in the schools and colleges are now the only medium through which teachers can interact with their students.

The lecture videos, digital edition of textbook and links to the other study material has been provided to all the students. E- Learning found out to be more flexible to the students to grab the knowledge. With the proper utilization of technology one can learn and grow during this pandemic situation. Though only the private sectors have the facilities to provide E-learning to the children. The government schools are still not having that measures through which they can provide each and every student the facility of E-learning. However apart from learning many other things also developed among the students like working for the companies, doing online internships.

The past year has transformed nearly every aspect of our world. Seemingly overnight, the quirky became mundane. Meanwhile, our friends, family, colleagues, and communities have had their lives changed in critical ways that promise to have much longer-lasting effects. Living through a global pandemic has driven dramatic shifts in our jobs, eating habits, childcare, and even our collective sense of time.

For a while it seemed like a respite from daily stresses. Traffic jams vanished in cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bengaluru, even in smaller cities like Trivandrum. Companies reported saving countless millions on utilities and operating costs, and started eyeing their high-priced offices as unnecessary, since their businesses seemed to tick along fine without them. Now, a year on, it seems possible that office life might never be the same again. For millions, working from home has come to signify higher-end employment. Indeed, the gulf is now starkly visible on the streets between those able to perform their jobs remotely and those that can’t.

Today we have learnt to  live with masks hiding our face.  We have now accepted the fact that there will always be a social distance, not just physically but even socially. Emotional oneness has given way to severe isolation and we are nowhere, in the vicinity of oneness. We though we will come together online, and did, only to realize that online we are just an electronic sound or digital picture.

However the saddest part is the fact that we have even started losing the need for oneness. We will, one daresay, never be what we were two years ago, when we were a race hurtling on to tomorrow. Today we cower in the darkness, awaiting a morning to befall us, that too with bad news.