Prayers in solidarity with nurses, doctors, other essential workers and families coping with the ghastly turn the pandemic has taken in India. To citizens supporting workers and communities - thank you 🙏🏼 The crisis will blow over and we will all prevail; together and soon.

Herbert Zbigniew. Untitled from, ‘Inscription: In memory of my father’. (1969).
TS Eliot on this same struggle with words: “a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general imprecision of feeling” #poetry

So this needs no spotlight but I'm giving it one anyway a year since Roger Robinson won the T.S Eliot prize. Roger's real genius is that he makes it look effortless when really that ease & apparent simplicity is hard won. I tried to chose a different poem but had to go with Grace..

Zareena Begum lived at Hatha Khuda Baksh area in Old Fatehganj in Lucknow. An old harmonium, a tabla and some old pages and diaries with lyrics in Urdu were her companions in her final days. She passed away in 2018, she was a disciple of Begum Akthar. youtube.com/watch?v=HK4xQk…

Delhi: A sanitation worker becomes the first person to receive COVID-19 vaccine jab at AIIMS. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is also present. (ANI)
Track #Covid19 latest updates here bit.ly/3qCHv5F

And a roll-out of a million vaccines in six days.
In the new world we call it diplomacy. There was an older world with gentler giants whose roots stretched far. This is more than diplomacy,. It is a mater familias remembrance; rekindling memories in old roots #mybelovedland

India is giving away millions of free vaccine doses to Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar and Seychelles. The result is a form of vaccine diplomacy that appears to be unlike any other in the world. washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

My profound gratitude to PM Narendra Modi and people of India for gifting COVID-19 vaccines despite their own pressing needs. This comes at a critical time in our fight against the COVID pandemic, and bears testimony to the strong friendship between our two countries and peoples.

A phenomenal physician who epitomized the core values of medicine. Lived her principles, loved the science and taught both. One whose very memory was enough to stoke guilt and make everyone work a little harder for that day. A grand and blessed life. Thank you for much, Ma’am 🙏🏼

Undertaker bees sniff out comrades that have passed on; not by what they emit, but by what they do not. They then act as pallbearers and gently cart them away. Extraordinary. sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/h…

Van Gogh's Starry Night, painted in an insane asylum, accurately models a mystery of physics pst.cr/j6Dr3