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Publisher’s Note

























                                Beware the Ides of March







         Remember March, the Ides of March? Did not the    warning on the San Andreas Fault which is a
         great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?             continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault
          ‘Beware the Ides of March’ is one of the most    that extends roughly 1,200 kilometres through
         famous quotes from William Shakespeare’s          California. It forms the tectonic boundary between
         Julius Caesar. The meaning of the ‘Ides of March’   the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
         is March 15, the day on which Julius Caesar was   It seems that a massive earthquake of 9.5 on the
         assassinated (both in reality and in the play).   Richter scale is about to happen and that would
          The expression ‘Beware the Ides of March’ was    completely destroy California and its neighbouring
         popularised as a line from William Shakespeare’s   area. The effects could be felt around the world.
         play Julius Caesar. In the play, the line is spoken to   Closer to home we have seen the impending
         Caesar by a soothsayer as a warning of his coming   destructions of Joshimath where a large number of
         assassination.                                    houses have cracked.
          Beware the Ides of March has become particularly   The weather change is there for all of us to feel
         associated with political contexts, but it can also be   rains in February and March. The seasawing
         used more generally in reference to other potential   summer-winter fluctuations and a variety of
         misfortune.                                       diseases that have caused havoc. It seems as if
          Almost as if the prophecy has come true, there are   Mother Earth is giving up on us. Surely, we need to
         natural disasters that the earth is throwing up one   beware of the Ides of March.
         after the other. The Turkey and Syrian earthquakes
         and the subsequent floods, the gut-wrenching
         images of the disaster-death and destructions all
         shake you up.
          The continuous volcanic eruptions in the island of
         Java. All point to the prophecy of Ides of March.   Vickram Sethi
          The other disaster waiting to happen is the      Publisher and Editor-in-Chief


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