FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

peaking at the India Today Conclave earlier this month, writer-journalist Thomas Friedman underlined the relativity of power. Mother Nature, he said, was the mother of all superpowers. It is hard to argue with that when you see the world’s sole great power, with an arsenal capable of destroying the Earth 10 times over, brought to its knees by a simple globetrotting virus. The pandemic has disrupted