IN SEARCH OF A ‘BETTER NORMAL’
Oct 16, 2021
3 minutes
By AROON PURIE
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IN MARCH 2020, we had to cancel the India Today Conclave due to Covid. Eighteen months later, we met under unusual circumstances, ringed in by rules of survival and social distancing that made it difficult for us to meet in ways that were once easy and familiar. In a sense, this is a metaphor for our times.
The past few months have been a time of upheaval, loss and uncertainty. We have experienced a deadly pandemic. We have seen the world’s superpowers stumble with crumbling infrastructure. We faced an unprecedented shortage of medical oxygen, and watched our
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