Quietly, silently, stealthily the virus waits, outside our gates, waiting for one false move, of one pair of hands not washed with soap and water, waiting for one allowance of infected person entering, but till then it waits outside, pretending sleep, waiting for that chance, that opportunity, when it can…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.