In this hour of gloom and doom, hope springs eternal in the human breast for a long life. Even amidst this unprecedented death dance, elders in the family do return my respectful bow with ‘live a hundred years’ blessings.

In this hour of gloom and doom, hope springs eternal in the human breast for a long life. Even amidst this unprecedented death dance, elders in the family do return my respectful bow with ‘live a hundred years’ blessings.
The U.K. Variant and the South African Variant have been proved to be more contagious and deadly and spreading in an unprecedented way.
‘No Going Back’ to that world because it was heading towards the end of human existence on this planet — as a result of global warming, the process of extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands, and invasion of artificial intelligence to make human beings redundant in the world.
Let us all, irrespective of our religion-colour-caste, repay the debt of blood of millions of martyrs through establishment of an exploitation-free society by shunning the differences of party, paths and opinion.
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