India lockdown

Modi Orders 3-Week Total Lockdown for All 1.3 Billion Indians : With four hours’ notice, India’s prime minister announced that no one could leave home for 21 days — the most severe step taken anywhere in the war against the coronavirus.

Comparison with the great plague

The strange and startling similarities between the Great Plague and COVID-19 

Some articles about the current unprecedented times

The real pandemic danger is social collapse by Brando Milanovic
How the pandemic will end by Ed Yong
Interview with an expert Dr. Bruce Aylward

The Chinese Doctor who beat the Plague

The Chinese Doctor who beat the Plague

Cuba’s contribution to fighting Covid-19

Cuba’s contribution to fighting Cvid-29 

Seasonal effects on viruses and more

Why do dozens of diseases wax and wane with the seasons—and will COVID-19? 

On the Spanish Flu

The virus that killed 18 million Indians 

Mike Davis on the coronavirus

Mike Davis on COVID-19: The monster is finally at the door
See also  The extraordinary decision facing Italian doctors https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas
Viral Coronavirus 'Advisory' Is Not From UNICF https://www.boomlive.in/health/viral-coronavirus-advisory-is-not-from-unicef-7171 

A recent mathematics paper

Comparing decompositions of Poincaré Dulaity pairs One of my better papers, I think.it has massive contributions from collaborators and took about three years to complete. It is based on an earlier paper Canonical decompositions of Poincare Duality pairs which was a revised version of a 2007 manuscript. It is being revised again. Nice to work leisurely in retirement( I retired in 2005).

Mid Day Meals

Gujarat Headmaster Grows Organic Food For Students For 17 Years, Ensures 100% Attendance! 

CAA-NPR-NRC

What Is CAA, NPR, NRC? What Is Its Impact On Indian Citizens?  Confusing but may be one can try to see how they tried to implement these in Assam.
There is another article in India Today says:
“ Now, let's see the connection that troubles those skeptical of the government's move.It takes us to 2004, when another Citizenship Amendment Act had been passed - the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2003 - when the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government was in power. In the amendment to the Citizenship Act of 1955, a Section 14A had been inserted. Section 14A relates to issue of national identity cards.

According to Section 14A of the Citizenship Act, "the Central Government may compulsorily register every citizen of India and issue a national identity card to him."

The same Section 14A of the Citizenship Act says, "The Central Government may maintain a National Register of Indian Citizens and for that purpose establish a National Registration Authority."”

“ Refer to Section 14A of the Citizenship Act again. This Section 14A provides the legal basis for NPR preparation and links it with Census and NRC.

It says that the Registrar General India shall act as the National Registration Authority and also as the Registrar General of Citizen Registration. The catch here is that the Registrar General functions as the Census Commissioner of India.

This means if the government wants, at any point of time, the data collected for the NPR may be legally used for NRC.”

Freeman Dyson passed away

Obituary in NYTimes.
Some videos of his contributions to physics and the last one about Fermi indicates a humble person but he was always quite independent while admiring others.

https://youtu.be/i3RcN5UGwgI Linking the ideas of Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga

https://youtu.be/pToteaNcIdk Richard Feynman and his work

https://youtu.be/hV41QEKiMlM fermi’s rejection of our work.
And one more on Richard Feynman ‘Meeting Feynman with .....’