THE PONDERING PEDIATRICIAN

CORONA, HOSANNA and HALLELUJAH As I pen down this article, the world statistics of Covid-19 stand at a total of 1,781,383 cases and  108,880 deaths. We are under a lock-down – a period of absolute nothingness such as we have never experienced before. The graphs around the world are neither favourable nor reassuring. Our generation, especially the millennials, are being forced into a sudden pause that stagnated our fast-moving and busy lives. None of this is good news. Of course, we try to unlock the lock-down with sugar, spice and everything nice, but not all sections of society have the privilege to “celebrate” the curfew. Amidst all the gloom and doom and the depressing dubiety, a big section of Christendom is still recovering from the unprecedented crisis of observing the Holy Week at home. Is everything around in shades of grey as we perceive them, or are there rays of hope to which our eyes are blind? Palm Sunday or Hosanna Sunday, celebrated by some Christian commu