Shekhar Gupta: Because, tomorrow always comes

There are many scary scenarios about how badly we Indians may be affected or how many killed by COVID-19. But they presume 1.36 billion people will do nothing to influence their fates

In the coronavirus season, we are daring to pick on two widely accepted truisms. The first, that tomorrow never comes. And the second, famously attributed to economist John Maynard Keynes and brought back to us by Dr Manmohan Singh in the course of the Parliament debate on demonetisation: In the long run, we are all dead.

The mood is so despondent that optimism carries the risk of being called insensitive. The nastiest virus in two generations is travelling the world, needing no passport or visa, and travelling on other people’s tickets.

Since the virus is “novel”, no one, king or