Seminar-733 Questioning Corona 2020.pdf
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… seeks to reflect through free discussion, every shade of Indian thought and aspiration. Each month, a single problem is debated by writers belonging to different persuasions. Opinions expressed have ranged from janata to congress, from sarvodaya to communist to independent. And the non-political specialist too has voiced his views. In this way it has been possible to answer a real need of today, to gather the facts and ideas of this age and to help thinking people arrive at a certain degree of … looks like a play of words but has profound consequences, as it unravels in daily life. Drucker claimed that a leader is one who does the right thing, while a manager is one who does things right. The manager emphasizes the tactical, he plays safe, where a leader confronts a more open-ended experimental world which involves risk. A manager is instrumental, and literally conveys a sense of impression management. One was pondering over Drucker’s distinction as one listened to Modi’s first speech … on statistical indicators that portray the speed, severity and shape of the epidemic as it races across several countries. It became the source of knowledge on terms hitherto unfa- miliar to most, such as exponential growth, flattening of the curve, contact tracing, social distancing and com- munity transmission. While these are important for epidemic control, the major lessons it has delivered relate to the origins of this virus attack from induced ecological imbalance and the changes that we …
