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A professor friend and ex-marketer, who
is nudging 70, was worried about how to
continue teaching his students when colleges
have been shut down, used as he was to the
classroom sessions in his college. The college
enabled a digital way of conducting classes,
but he was not comfortable with the use of
technology except for his cellphone. But the
passion for teaching drove him to learn the
use of digital conferencing and over the past
Cooking is a hidden passion that men now find time for few months has mastered the art of video
impact from a different perspective. conferencing with his students, having
Location-neutral was an accommodative discussions and debates, slide sharing, etc.
corporate jargon in the word of brick and without compromising on pedagogy or
mortar; now it has become a reality with the rigour in any way. All, sitting at home and
forced shift to work from home (WFH). Live feeling safe and secure.
work conferences have given way to endless Another friend of mine, in his early
business webinars with people Zooming to seventies, has rekindled his childhood
MS Teaming. passion for fish tanks. He managed to buy
The curtailed commuting has added extra a lovely fish tank from a neighbourhood
usable time to 24 hours. The din and dust and fill it up some exotic fishes. He tends
in the cities have come down, families are the fishes every day with loving care,
getting more time with each other to hear feeding it with the right food, planting
and listen to each other, traffic and pollution weeds in the tank and admiringly gazing
have come down, animals in land and sea and watching his pet fishes swim and
are seen to frolic sans human trespass into swarm in the large tank. He has also
their space and so much more. Behavioural taken to planting vegetables in his terrace
changes and consumption shifts have garden and distributing them to his
brought about a healthier socio and eco neighbours. His wife, a tech dino, has used
environs and are set to significantly alter the the confining times to turn into a tech geek
world that we had grown up in and had been and has happily taken to conducting digital
used to. counselling sessions.
A fundamental aspect of life is the inveterate A couple of friends in a very active whatsapp
traverse from birth to death as we keep group have taken the trouble to scour world
discovering ourselves. This commute can news and collate the latest information on
be wonderful if we can handle the various the war against Covid, all related statistics
facets of life with temperance and equanimity. of affliction and recovery, the remedies that
One of ways that we can keep growing as an are under testing, the precautions to be
individual is learning new skills and stoking taken, sourcing essentials, etc. A very useful
the creative passion in each of us. This service to keep everyone updated and safety
curiosity factor has kept many of us enthused measures to be adopted. They are spending
about life and living even when the world time and efforts to give apt inputs to people in
around has been locked down. facing the scourge with courage.
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