The month of MAY.,, It was dead of the night , I was just about to catch my wink of sleep when the silence of the night was suddenly disturbed by the shrill of the telephone bell ringing in the drawing room. I got up from the bed and like a robot walked into the drawing room to pick up the phone. As I lifted the receiver and brought it to to my ear, I heard a voice from the other side that said...Hi Bala. The voice was very familiar, so I said hi and got into conversation. The phone conversation went on something like this:
The voice from the other side: Bala what is this "Corona Virus"?
My Voice: Hey don't tell me you don't know ...I chuckled
The voice from the other side : You stupid if I knew that I won't be asking
My Voice: How could some one on this damn earth remain so ignorant...I quizzed
The voice from the other side : Bala ,just tell me what is "Corona Virus"
My Voice : Well "Corona Virus" is a type of virus that infects human typically leading to a sever upper respiratory infection. There are 7 of them and this current virus that has practically brought the entire humanity to its knee is called Covid 19. This virus claimed to have originated from a "wet market" in China started travelling through human carriers and spread into almost all the countries across the world. Some global political bodies also claim that this virus was lab invented in China and it was China's first baby step towards a biological warfare. This virus has so far killed more than millions and millions across the globe
The voice from the other side: Oh so that's the story You know just a while back as some of us were as usual talking away 'nothing' , a bunch of human arrive and out of curiosity as usual I asked them how come they are here. They all at once together started babbling It was a cacophony of noises that I hardly could make any sense of Somehow I was able to pick up some words like "Migrant Workers", "Cornavirus" so I immediately decided to call you as others were still scratching their bones apart in trying to make sense of those noises
Suddenly I felt like a 'scholar' and started telling the voice on the other end about the covid 19 crisis.
My Voice: You see those migrant workers are some among the millions who were walking from one State to the other in fear, hunger and desperation because they had lost their livelihood These are the people who were left with no choice of picking between a 'death' by hunger or a 'death' by Covid So they decided to walk down to their home Sate from whichever State they were stranded in They preferred to die in their own State than to starve away to death in the State which for them once was the "promised land" . However all this time for the Govts that were responsible for their life and welfare pretended ignorant of their existence. Frankly speaking for all our politicians the life and welfare of the ordinary people continues to remain a "football" which is kept kicking till the time they get kicked out of this WORLD.,,,
I was absolutely emotional and passionate as I was reeling out my "Baddas"...when I heard on the "voice from the other side."...
The voice from the other side: I know Bala , I know, only when you get kicked out, you come here,, .Before I could say something the "The voice on the other side" had hung up!
After putting the receiver back in the cradle I walked from the drawing room and got into the bed to start counting sheep to grab that little bit of "sleep time" before the world wakes up to another day of social distancing ..Now as I was about to catch that precious wink of sleep , I suddenly remember that "the voice from the other side" that I was speaking to was the voice of my friend...whose funeral I had attended last year...It was too month of "MAY !
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