A Brave New World: Usher in the New Year with explosive positivity!

Drawing comfort from the beautiful verses that Lord Tennyson wrote over a hundred and seventy years ago, it is once again the perfect time to ‘ring out the old, ring in the new’. We welcome another year with gratitude to simply be alive and well, reeling from what has been a true test of the human superpower of resilience.

We arrived into 2021 fervently hoping to escape from the grasp of a global health crisis that the United Nations described as quite unlike any other in the history of its 75 years.

The novel coronavirus was and is not limited to a health crisis; it has wreaked havoc on social, economic and psychological levels. It claimed lives and livelihoods, hitting marginalized pockets of the world hard and affecting almost every industry. Children today have spent entire academic years indoors and have yet to fully grasp what our ‘normal’ used to be.

As vaccines were deployed successfully, we rose to the challenge and attempted to achieve a semblance of the pre-Covid era. Schools, colleges and offices reopened carefully. Entertainment and social gatherings became possible gradually. The world got back into its hustle and bustle.

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