Song: Yeh Kya Hua
Film: Amar Prem
Composer: RD Burman
Singer: Kishore Kumar
I am starting a new theme of covering songs with lyrics that uncannily reflect our predicament as we battle this frightening second wave of covid in India.
Yeh kya hua, kaise hua, kab hua…questions many are asking as the sanguine mood of late-Feb has given way to despair. All over again, I may add. There is truly a Groundhog Day flavour to this nightmare.
Pictured life 
April 25, 2021 at 3:06 pm |
I hope that y’all stay safe and get back on the road to recovery soon.
April 25, 2021 at 3:18 pm |
Thanks man! Scary, scary times here. Good news is new cases in Mumbai are starting to drop. Bad news is it’s still 5.8k a day, that’s still too high to open up again.
April 26, 2021 at 3:23 pm
It’s good to hear that the cases are coming down. I’ve been wondering how exactly did this happen. Was it just complacency and prematurely declaring victory on covid? Was it people fatigued from all the restrictions? The rise in the past month is anything like I’ve ever seen.
April 29, 2021 at 6:43 am |
Hi. Didn’t see your comment until now.
Yes, unfortunately, mostly just complacency and hubris as well as mask-fatigue. Govts declared victory over covid even as the second wave was building up and people decided they were sick of masks.
Consider too that both case numbers and deaths are understated due to low testing on the first count and not reporting deaths as covid on the second.
I am just seeing an NDTV report that the positivity rate in Kolkata is 50%. That’s insane. That means their numbers would be at least 4-5 times that of Mumbai, where the positivity rate is 12%. Can you believe that last phase of WB polls is today, in the middle of all this?
April 29, 2021 at 6:47 am |
Scary, scary reports from UP and Delhi:
https://scroll.in/article/993462/people-are-dropping-dead-like-flies-covid-19-turns-silent-killer-in-uttar-pradesh-villages
https://scroll.in/article/993561/bodies-after-bodies-are-coming-death-and-devastation-in-delhi