COVID-19 Update: April 02, 2020 (2)
All international postage services between Japan and 153 countries have been stopped with effect from today. [Source: NHK]
COVID-19 Update: April 02, 2020 (1)
Between March 25 and April 01, 416 new cases have been registered in Japan. 40% of those infected are 30 years old or younger. [Source: NHK]
COVID-19 Update: April 01, 2020 (2)
As of 9 pm Japan time today, 261 new cases have been registered in Japan. [Source: NHK]
COVID-19 Update: April 01, 2020
Tokyo has registered a further 68 new cases in the last 24 hours.
A Global Pandemic
[Post updated on April 06, 2020] For the last few months, the entire world has been ravaged by a new coronavirus that is so contagious that there is no sign yet of how soon it can be brought under control. For the first time in recent human history, a pandemic has crossed all man-made physical […]
COVID-19 Update: March 31, 2020
Japan has reported a record 243 new cases in the last 24 hours, with Tokyo registering the highest number of cases so far at 78 today.
The “Aadhaar Card” Experience
Recently, I made a whirlwind trip to my hometown – Kolkata (India). Even though I wish the main intention of this trip had been to take a much-needed vacation, it wasn’t that at all. In the last few years, the Indian Govt. has gradually made it more and more important for all citizens to acquire […]
Wrapping up 2019
So here we are… on the cusp of ending the year 2019 and the decade that it caps off. And what a decade this has been… from natural disasters to man-made calamities to political upheavals to horrendous crimes to an overwhelming sense of negativity and uncertainty around the world for different reasons. The climate crisis […]
Kesennuma City Memorial Museum (Ruins of Koyo High School)
Kesennuma, in Miyagi prefecture (Japan), was one of the sea-side cities that was completely devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Triggered by an M9 earthquake off the East coast of Japan, an unimaginable deluge swept through this once peaceful and picturesque fishing town, drowning its life and soul under water and debris. One […]
A non metal-head’s reaction to Tool’s “Fear Inoculum”
I am no metal-head by any stretch of the imagination. I love rock music and grew up listening to Nirvana, Guns’n’Roses, Metallica, Doors, and the like. What I enjoyed about those bands was the fact that besides sounding great, their music had so many layers, and the longer you listened to them, you would discover […]