From the Desk of the Managing Editor 05 Prof. (Dr.), Deependra Kumar Jha The Nation Is Safe in Your Hands & 06 Sachin Tendulkar Education Education to Evolve after Covid-19 content 08 Pandemic Dr. Águeda Benito Learning in Covid-19 Times and Beyond: 12 Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity B Prof. Ujjwal K Chowdhury Ecology Is Coronavirus an Old US Bio-Weapon? 18 Subir Bhaumik Covid-19 and Lockdown: Its Impact on 24 the Environment Jeremy Wilks Health Role of Bioinformatics in the 28 Development of Covid-19 Vaccine Dr. Rudra Prasad Saha Right to Health and Covid-19 32 Dr. Jyotsna Yagnik Economy and Commerce Whither Aviation in a Post Covid World 37 Prof. (Dr.) Ugur Guven Marketing and Business Trends Post 42 Covid for India: A Brief Analysis Dr. Subrata Chattopadhyay Bubble Valuation of Startups Will be 47 History in the Post Corona World Cyrus Dastur The Stock Market Chronology of 50 Covid-19 and Beyond Sabyasachi Mondal Changes in Consumer Behaviour that Are 55 Here to Stay Arijit Banerjee “Stay-Home Economy”: A New Reality in 60 Post Covid World Prof. Mrityunjoy Chatterjee 3 People Why Are They Here Is the New Norm, 65 Not WFH Shantanu Guha Ray Perfect Work-From-Home Solutions for 69 Organizational Heads in the Post Covid content World Kinshuk Adhikary Covid-19: A Social Challenge than a 74 Pandemic in India Dipanjan Bhattacharya World Issues The Long and the Short of the World 80 Post-Covid-19: A View Dr. Manas Paul Britain and Coronavirus – The Bad, Ugly 85 and Good Jeff Watkins Creative World Global Cinema and Pandemics: Past 90 Portrayals and Future Possibilities Dr. Sunayan Bhattacharjee Creative Bloom amid Covid-19 Gloom 95 S Manna 100 Adamas University Round Up From the Desk of the Executive Editor 105 Prof. Ujjwal K Chowdhury Patron: Prof. Samit Ray, Chancellor, Adamas University and Chairman, RICE Education Managing Editor: Prof. (Dr.) Deependra Kumar Jha, Vice Chancellor Executive Editor: Prof. Ujjwal K Chowdhury, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of School of Media, Communication & Fashion Chief Sub-Editor: Dr. Sunayan Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, School of Media, Communication & Fashion Editorial Board Members: Prof. Mrityunjoy Chatterjee, CEO and Professor, Chancellor’s Cell Prof. (Dr.) Anish Deb, Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology Sabyasachi Mondal, Assistant Professor, School of Management Editorial Assistant: Subhajit Chakraborty Design Consultancy: Sameer Aasht Design and Page-setting: Kunal Samaddar Coverpage Design: Somnath Roy 4 From the Desk of the Managing Editor Dear Readers, At Adamas University, our priority remains s the norm dictates (as years of to aid the learning of our students to the experience collect dust beneath best of our abilities in addition to Amy feet), I welcome you to the first continuous commitment to impact the issue of #ideaPlus, a quarterly magazine society positively. We have always at Adamas University. There are certain believed in holistic development – the emotions struggling at the tip of my idea that education extends way beyond tongue (Gratitude? Honour? Pride? finite walls and books (#educationPlus, Anxiety?) and in true, dull human fashion, we call it), and amidst this crisis, we’re at I will resort to a simple, heartfelt thank you. a unique position. In spite of technical I am positive on the heel of its origin, challenges, we have managed to #ideaPlus might not have been about a successfully shift to online mode of virus. As a proud academician, I would learning, and I am reminded, once again, hope to talk about intellectual values, how adaptable humans are and how industry insights and the future awe-inspiring our dedication has (and how certain it once been. seemed). In times of peril, we must invoke But Coronavirus is a new reality – empathy, we must be human, life in times of death. and hence, #ideaPlus is an A world moving at a dizzy pace endeavour to bring together will not be brought on its knees people from around the globe to by missiles, but microbes, it discuss both the consequences of seems. We’ve brewed in these this pandemic as we battle it and circumstances long enough to the trends so that our stakeholders be a little more – students, parents, industry and accommodating, a little more society at large are benefitted. accepting. I will not overlook the distress it As time moves on, I am sure the memory has caused (that would be too cruel, too of this tragedy will be folded and tucked harsh, and too ignorant). And yet, outside away neatly under a pile of more urgent my window are leaves; spring in the concerns. As time moves on, I am sure this empty Kolkata continues unabated. The memory will persevere as one of human flowers don’t care that no one is there to resilience, a catalyst for change (albeit a witness them bloom. The streets continue little hasty). As time moves on, I am sure to be empty except for the occasional we will overcome this uncertainty, rise police vans. The stores are all closed once again from the ashes (not without except a few small grocery stores and scars). pharmacies. With cautious optimism, I pray this ends Life is both terrifying and oddly mundane. soon. As human beings, we fall into the dull I hope you are safe and sound, ache of familiarity, routine and patterns; surrounded by love. and I never quite considered how hardwired we were until the national Prof. (Dr.) Deependra Kumar Jha, lockdown was announced. I have been Vice Chancellor, Adamas University so reliant on my work to provide a sense Former Vice Chancellor, UPES, Dehradun of direction, that my days felt hollow. and GD Goenka University, Gurugram 5 The Nation Is Safe in Your Hands Indian cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar talks about the Covid-19 crisis and how one should cope with it. month ago, I was back on the cricket field. I was representing India as part of the Road ASafety World Series (RSWS). Giving back to the society in any form is something I consider as my responsibility, and therefore when the opportunity arose to raise awareness about road safety, I readily agreed. Cricket has been my life, and the month of March was turning out to be very exciting for me. There was the chance to don the national jersey and play for India in the RSWS, and the IPL was to happen in a couple of weeks too. IPL gives me a chance to interact with youngsters and share my learnings to help them realize their true potential and I find it very fulfilling. But suddenly, both the RSWS and IPL got cancelled. News about Covid-19 spreading closer home was starting to trickle in. While everyone’s life has been disrupted, I feel this 6 was the right decision to take. Now, it has the young minds. I hope it helped them been more than a month since India has understand sports injuries better. There are been in a lockdown. All of us are slowly valuable lessons for all of us to be learnt beginning to accept the restrictions here. This phase has given all of us an around us. While following social opportunity to pause and reflect and we distancing norms and lockdown should all use this time to invest in our instructions are necessary for us to flatten personal and professional development. the curve and win over this pandemic, This is the ideal time to be planning. If we we must also take care of our physical are all able to structure what we want to and mental well-being. Walks inside your be doing in our heads, we will be able to houses and simple exercises are things execute faster once the lockdown is lifted one should do to keep oneself physically and life returns to normalcy. An adversity engaged. Staying locked up in our is an opportunity for us to be able to homes, with our mobility restricted, is not bounce back stronger and better. I have something most of us are used to. This can also been reading about how nature has also have adverse been using this lockdown time effects on our mental to heal itself as well. The air health. Being mentally around us has been engaged – talking to cleaner, and several family and friends, Following animals and birds seem to playing indoor games social distancing have found their habitats etc. are aspects which norms and lockdown again. I hope we identify can ensure we stay instructions are and reduce some of our mentally fresh. It is also actions that have led to our responsibility to necessary for us to unsustainable ensure that the elders in flatten the curve and environments. We have our homes – the most win over this only one Earth and it is our vulnerable, are taken responsibility to take care care of. They would pandemic. of it and pass it on to our probably be as stressed future generations. Finally, as we are during these I would like to say a times and we should do message to the young everything we can to regularly graduates who have just passed out this communicate and engage with them year or are going to graduate next year. and help them stay calm. While the The economy may look challenging and lockdown has prevented most of us from jobs difficult to find. But don’t give up. being able to carry on our everyday Acceptability is the key to adaptability. professional chores, there are people Along with challenges, there would be using this to be able to prepare for a plenty of newer opportunities emerging in better tomorrow.