https://blog.ramiyer.me/tags/crisis/Recent content in Crisis on Ram’s blogHugoen-INSat, 15 Mar 2025 19:44:06 +0530https://blog.ramiyer.me/janata-curfew/Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.ramiyer.me/janata-curfew/<p>Some of us defeated the whole purpose of the Janata Curfew today. At five this evening, we hear the sounds of clapping and the shankh-dhvani and people clanging plates and all of that. We look out of one of our windows and see about ten people fist-bumping, high-fiving and shaking hands. The last part was disappointing.</p>https://blog.ramiyer.me/panic-buying-during-hard-times/Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.ramiyer.me/panic-buying-during-hard-times/<p>The way the year 2020 started bordered on insane. For those in India, this effect was rather pronounced, starting from Kerala passing a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, followed by upping of the protests across the country&mdash;Delhi&rsquo;s Shaheen Bagh being the flag ship, to the incidents of dirty politics during the Delhi Elections campaigning, to the novel coronavirus going on claiming thousands of lives.</p>