The Aftermath So much has been shared on the social networking circuit about the Covid pandemic and its aftermath that one would feel that everything that could possibly be said or written has already been penned, and that too several times over. But, like everyone else I too would like to believe that my perspective is refreshingly different so here goes…. When I was a child I read a story. I haven’t the faintest clue what it was all about but one line stands out clearly in my mind ‘ it is a ill wind that blows no one any good’ . And I do believe that although this gross tragedy with its disastrous fallout of lives lost and countries thrown into a tizzy, is a nerve racking experience; at a very microscopic level ,it has its own share of a silver lining. I have started waking to the chirping of birds, a sound that had been lost in the pandemonium of mechanical, fast- paced living. These little winged creatures are subtly asserting their stake ...