ARJUN CHAUDHARY

The New Outbreak Indians' phones are being flooded with misinformation. The battle against the coronavirus has many obstacles like- huge crowds, a stretched & inadequate health system. Since the coronavirus outbreak last December in China, misinformation, especially through WhatsApp, Facebook has risen too much. India is the biggest market for the Facebook-owned messaging application, 'WhatsApp' with more than 50 crore users in a country which had 56.8 crore smartphones. In the midst of the lockdown in India people are spreading misleading information and rumours about coronavirus. In such difficult times, some mischievous people are posting, sharing or forwarding fake news, misinformation and hate speech in society. Many people are sharing old videos, mock drills, and even scenes from movies and unnecessarily relating them to the virus. Dozens of people have been killed in public lynching’s by angry crowds during the last four years over WhatsApp rumours that they were...

The World Will Never Be The Same Again ? ……. that's because coronavirus has now shown that every country is now sequestered within itself, countries are raising borders, people are not travelling, people are working from home, they have forgotten travelling overseas and working from overseas, people are looking at shifting supply chains within their own countries. So does it mean globalization is finished? The answer is No! This is a larger debate. You can agree or you can disagree. The world is even flatter than before. COVID-19 rules the world and you will now see that globalization will get a second life because countries are heading to talk to each other, science now has become so important in our lives and there's nothing more global in the world, not even financial flows. You might not only see a new birth of globalization, the new life of globalization but you might see changes in the shape of this global, change in the global balance of power post COVID. And that i...