THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: TESTIMONY OF SOME BRIGHTER PERSPECTIVES

Honble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi on 24^th March midnight 2020 declared a three-week (25^th March-14^thApril2020) lockdown extended from the  Union Territories and most states to the whole country and provided a more definite timeline. It was stated that this Janta-Curfew is the only way to break the cycle of COVID-19 Pandemic. Looking at the death toll world wide the Lockdown phase had been increased from 15^th April to-3^rd May 2020 and then 4^th May to 17^th May 2020. This increased the restlessness and anxiety of each and every Indian whether Employer, Employee, Politician, Student, Teacher, Industrialist, labour, Actor or even children. The economy got a hard back-hit and all the economic, commercial and social activities got paused with a horrifying uncertainty. But amidst this phase of uncertainty, fear and anxiety there had been some miraculous transformations in the set perceptions and ideologies of the general public, which were very positive and motivational. This generated new real life Heros and new records of charity and humanity.