Covid 19 - A Satanic Saga - Santanu Ghosh

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Article By: Santanu Ghosh

COVID 19 - A Satanic Saga

Vacant streets and void souls; medical mathematics and human guinea pigs on a role; half-burned corpse and an entangled viral fallacy; maligned relationships and a forcefully degraded human behavior; inexplicable insomnia and persistent heartthrobs; never-ending ambulance sirens symmetrical with sounds of trumpets in a war- Yes, there was an attack on human civilization- the attack of the fearless, the gruesome Covid-19. The Covid marauders were stopped by no one. They came and they began to kill, kill with deliberation, kill with cold blooded calculation. Death, decay, disgrace and disillusionment, all seemed to happen simultaneously. Our civilized veneer was stripped off and all of a sudden we lost our conscience and consciousness. The repercussions were horrifying. We gradually started believing life as how it was and absolutely forgot how it ought to be ! The fanatic dancing somnambulist with a sword in his hand butchered the human race in existence at will. The annihilation continued…….

Crying children, horrified parents, helpless science and ceaseless moaning persisted with all its vigor. The breathtaking miasma mingled to strike up an awful din that echoed and left the entire human civilization absolutely deaf and profoundly dumb until the plunderer with the bloody sword in his hand reached the নািনক 35 শারদীয়া পিকা ২০২২

Writer's Corner

Article By: Santanu Ghosh

COVID 19 - A Satanic Saga

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border of the earth - the place we live in , and stood in the middle of the river with knee level water in a moonlit night surrounded by pitch dark mountains. He noticed the silver grey reflection of nature partially visible in the flowing downstream and in the subtle silence, he saw a white falcon looking towards a wild deer gradually passing the river. In this absolute touch of nature he dropped his sword and touched his fingers in the flowing river and got pragmatically hallucinated to the call of the wild and the gigantic heat gradually diffused and dissolved in the bed of nature . But by then we suffered irreparable damage , a loss that would haunt us in the ages to come. The unaccountable and incalculable martyrs in the war would perhaps justify in history the enormity of the human race still in existence . Life will go on but can we remove the scars and stains the war has left behind?

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