Our texts always speak to the challenges of human adversity and how one addresses itThe new is always for us to know. Can we explain why this pandemic is happening? This is an interesting moment in a pandemic. Amongst many of those divisions and challenges, a pandemic like what we are experiencing now has the potential, as argued by Campbell, to bring us together. Living a life of certitude, integrity, honour and value — that is what most of our stories try to tell us.

Source: The Hindu August 29, 2020 19:30 UTC