Like

Like

If you had to choose,

Which side you’d take?

Like or Love

Think hard = about the difference what’s better?

Like or Love?

Like is like a comfortable journey,

Whereas love is a crowd...

Like is a liberalist (liberalism)

Whereas love is an extremist.

Ek like ki keemat tum Kya Jano...

(Do you know the value of a 'like'?)

HATE IS REALLY A STRONG EMOTION. ISN’T it?

Why hate is always the opposite of love?

Either you love or you hate...

Yes, you have an option

Swipe right for like,

In the end,

It’s okay to be merely 'liked',

Than not to be loved at all.

PD

Day two - self quarantine

My last picApic incin Fiji outside the Nadi airport

Day 2 

Early this morning learnt from friends that Fiji has one covid case (border). Apparently the same flight of Garuda Indonesia which took off from Delhi. One man even died on flight resulting to a 24 hour delay. Such is life. God bless Fiji.

Social distancing, was just a concept. Utter chaos inside and outside the plane. Folks shouting for seats, one guy held up the plane for forty minutes at Port Moresby (PNG).

Just refused to sit in economy class and parrotted 200 times that how he paid $2700 for business class (yeah no mask)...

Now tucked in a Paharganj hotel and under house arrest , literally. It's a little unprecedented, however such are times.

Day One - Quarantined in New Delhi

Hello all. 

It's Day - 1, New Delhi July 5

Self isolation in making...

Covid19 meals, social distancing, 8 step hand wash, sanitizing, health is wealth and immunity being the strongest keyword, which was taken for granted.

बीमारी के साथ जीना है announced a tea seller in Delhi...

Last 90 days, there is no news, except corona...

Inter Nation Travel In Times Of Corona

Ok. By the start of the year 2020, had no idea that travelling back will be such an event. Of sorts... They say it's the #newnormal...

Will try to document my trip back to Kolkata next week. Also keep you all posted on my experience of coming from a virus free nation Fiji tucked in the South Pacific to an invisible virus of modern times, the novel Covid19 threatening the world order in unprecedented ways.. The mainland India.

a screenshot of a locust attack heralding in the Northern India dated 27th June 2020, (landing near Gurgaon) on the 2nd July (Dhruv Rathi)

the morning of 28th June in Suva , Fiji Islands.

pre-corona (normal) times, October 2019.

Hong Kong Airport

so there is a DIRECT FLIGHT from Fiji (center of the Earth) To India under the Vande Mataram initiative by the Government Of India, MEA. Thank You. 

This perhaps should be my last Sunday in Fiji, of 2020...

Vinaka All

Pic Source - New Normal - Forbes

To Be or Not To Be Is Not The Question

Live Life The Fijian Way... Adieu Vinod Patel

What a roller coaster ride it was. #projectvpcl

Fiji altered my life, both personally and professionally...

Will tell later, how 😉

An awesome lunch by mates today at the Wedge, Wishbone. 

Lynda as usual was affable and friendly.

Pictures to be uploaded on FB once I get free with the last minute "packup"...

Lastly. 

Vinaka Vakalevu every one...

The last (not the least) pic today at VINOD PATEL...

The last Mohicans...

I am sure.. will cross paths some day...

hello or bula

You say bula in Fiji or hello.

Diesel Price Suva Vs Delhi - Why it's cheaper in the Islands over a mainland?

Reading that diesel in Delhi costs almost as much as petrol. Wow. 

As per Indian Express, "diesel costs Rs. 79.88 per litre in Delhi as compared to petrol price of Rs. 79.76 a litre."

I am living in deep down south Pacific and assuming the oil is coming here from the Middle East (so does India), then how come fuel is cheaper here.

Comparison as per June 2020

Fiji diesel - $1.87 (Rs. 65.27)

India diesel - $2.29 @34.90/$ (FJD)

I guess it's the taxes. Hmm. They say it comes to 70%.

• The question is the freight cost should be higher Vs Delhi. Then why it's expensive back home?

As per CNN/IBN broadly here is the breakup.

Petrol Price to customer - Rs 71.26

Base price - Rs 18.28

Excise duty (Central) - Rs 32.98

VAT (State) - Rs 16.44

Plus a smallt amount of thefthe price also goes as dealer's margin + freight charges.

Game Over For The Donald Trump?

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

                                                                                Abraham Lincoln

Is Mr. Donald Trump the dumbest business man president the USA has ever seen with blonde hair? A political rally now? Amidst this Covid19 pandemic, where America tops it, from the back. 

The City - Kolkata

Traveling does not mean exploring a new place. Traveling can be way more interesting visiting own city. Taking this forward, taking the pleasure of revisiting my homeland Kolkata. 

City of Joy is warm and forthcoming. 

Apt, the tales of Calcutta folklore is equally riveting.

Kolkata, accepts everyone,

Right, from the times of partition.

Kolkata is an epitome of unity in diversity.

Once an emerald of the east of thy majesty...

 

Kolkata, it means politics, food and sports.

And oh, have to add the art and culture, of course.

A democratic Bengali, vehemently opinionates with force and fervour.

Oh Kolkata, et Tu? 

The blue blooded lover of nostalgia? 

Kolkata, you mean, the tramlines,

In Kolkata, the chaos is controlled, 

With an epicenter  at Burrabazar. 

The history of the city can take you to olden times.

It's life...

They say, cholche cholbe...

Kolkata is about gully cricket and para football. 

Kolkata is Kolkata, it’s unique.

That’s where Kolkata stands for.

Kolkata also means coffee house and endless conversations one can die for. 

Kolkata is a paradise for book lovers. 

But Kolkata survives. 

Without its covers...

The city loves it’s own version, 

To keep revising Kolkata. 

The old town of the garrisons..

Saheb...

With time...

The city changed...

Oh Kolkata

Kolkata, the breathing space of  the global thinkers...

A place for the mindless banters...

Kolkata means strike, 

It means political debates.

The arguments

Yet the enthu hardly Rebates...

I ❤️ Kolkata

Lopamudra Ganguly

The author lives and works in Kolkata and was born in this city. 

Is the Cure for Corona, cheap Drug Dexamethasone ?

Perhaps the most important tweet of the year was made a little while ago by the Oxford Scientists. Reported on their website 

Michelle Roberts from the BBC reported that 

"A cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone can help save the lives of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus."

Oxford reports," SCIENCEHEALTHCORONAVIRUS

In March 2020, the RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial was established as a randomised clinical trial to test a range of potential treatments for COVID-19, including low-dose dexamethasone (a steroid treatment). Over 11,500 patients have been enrolled from over 175 NHS hospitals in the UK."

This is the part of the world s largest trials on Covid19. The website recoverytrial reads "This national clinical trial aims to identify treatments that may be beneficial for people hospitalised with suspected or confirmed COVID-19."

On 8 June, recruitment to the dexamethasone arm was halted since, in the view of the trial Steering Committee, sufficient patients had been enrolled to establish whether or not the drug had a meaningful benefit.

A total of 2104 patients were randomised to receive dexamethasone 6 mg once per day (either by mouth or by intravenous injection) for ten days and were compared with 4321 patients randomised to usual care alone. Among the patients who received usual care alone, 28-day mortality was highest in those who required ventilation (41%), intermediate in those patients who required oxygen only (25%), and lowest among those who did not require any respiratory intervention (13%).

Dexamethasone reduced deaths by one-third in ventilated patients (rate ratio 0.65 [95% confidence interval 0.48 to 0.88]; p=0.0003) and by one fifth in other patients receiving oxygen only (0.80 [0.67 to 0.96]; p=0.0021). There was no benefit among those patients who did not require respiratory support (1.22 [0.86 to 1.75; p=0.14).

Based on these results, 1 death would be prevented by treatment of around 8 ventilated patients or around 25 patients requiring oxygen alone.

Given the public health importance of these results, the researchers are now working to publish the full details as soon as possible.

Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, and one of the Chief Investigators for the trial, said, ‘Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19. This is an extremely welcome result. The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment, so dexamethasone should now become standard of care in these patients. Dexamethasone is inexpensive, on the shelf, and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide.’

Martin Landray, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, one of the Chief Investigators, said, ‘Since the appearance of COVID-19 six months ago, the search has been on for treatments that can improve survival, particularly in the sickest patients. These preliminary results from the RECOVERY trial are very clear – dexamethasone reduces the risk of death among patients with severe respiratory complications. COVID-19 is a global disease – it is fantastic that the first treatment demonstrated to reduce mortality is one that is instantly available and affordable worldwide.’

The UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said, 'This is tremendous news today from the Recovery trial showing that dexamethasone is the first drug to reduce mortality from COVID-19. It is particularly exciting as this is an inexpensive widely available medicine. This is a ground-breaking development in our fight against the disease, and the speed at which researchers have progressed finding an effective treatment is truly remarkable. It shows the importance of doing high quality clinical trials and basing decisions on the results of those trials.'