The Core Issue

Micro Hopes- China Fallen
5th February, on the instance of Chinese New Year, a part of Kolkata was surprisingly transformed. As we entered China Town, Tangra, we were greeted with fairy lights and Chinese lanterns. It felt like stepping into some other country. Festive scarlet decors adorned the homes, shops and the streets. Being associated with wealth and good fortune, red decorations are hung to ward off Nian – a lion-like monster that is afraid of the colour red, according to Lunar New Year mythology.

An Ode to my Past Valentine
"I have waited for 6 years to share this story with my mother. When I was 16, I was in love with a grown man. I remember vividly, that afternoon he had called me to his place. It was a cosy apartment. But promptly he grabbed me and started to undo his pants. Completely oblivious to sexuality like another school goer, I told him it was making me uncomfortable.
He said, "You feeling uncomfortable is arousing me." I recall feeling acutely aware of the utter helplessness that is associated with "r**e"
Today he will be fairly old. The incident bled the colours from life for a while. I have embodied different characters, strolled on the empty streets, and stood up to my confidence R**e culture renders you to be voiceless, and yes, even your partner can sexually abuse you. But your voice can emancipate you from the patriarchal strands, that we are conditioned to. A victim isn't a victim whole life, I have changed. I have learnt to raise my voice flamboyant enough to strike fear in my oppressors." - Mou
By:
**evictim **eculture

From spraying disinfectants to using dummy police mannequins - Bangalore is prepping up for the lockdown extension ( April 3.0 lockdown ).

Speaking to the police personnel, they say, they are working in three shifts (6 AM, 3 PM and 12 AM)
The lockdown violations have decreased in the city after April 14. In a surprising development, earlier most of the violations were done by the 30+ age group.

Police have installed dummy mannequins in police uniforms in several parts of the city. "Seeing the dummies, most people turn and go away, we don't need to chase them. Working tirelessly it's essential we save our energies," said an official laughing his lungs out.

"We have completely sealed off containment zones, only essential services are allowed. We are stopping the rest and making them go back. Sadly some senior citizens are regularly going out on morning walks. Sometimes without masks, if we try to inform them, they snap back at us," he added.

Researchers of China have discovered a new H1N1 swine flu virus that can possibly lead as pandemic, though there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission yet says the published journal, PNAS.
Researchers have stated the new swine flu is a descendant of the H1N1 virus, with features alike to the European avian-like (EA) H1N1 virus that had led to the 2009 pandemic in Mexico (pdm09) and also it is a triple reassortant virus ( genetic sequence is a diverse combination of three of the eight segments of H1N1 RNA).

India records over 5.66 lakh Covid-19 cases. About 18,522 new cases and 418 deaths in the last 24 hours, ANI reports.
Photo Credits: