Tracking And Estimating Covid-19 Cases In India

I created this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mrcYiTOuwGjqUomO9vsUQLuY-5DwlgPs7nY8RhmyuPw/edit?usp=drivesdk

I tracked total CUMULATIVE cases and deaths in India from Apr 21, 2020. The numbers were fairly low on this date - about 20,000 cases and 600 deaths total. 

The cases and deaths data for each date have been taken taken from 

https://www.covid19india.org/

As of Jul 29, 2020 there are about 1.5 million cases (including recovered cases and deaths) and 34,000 deaths.

The cases are currently doubling in 20 days while deaths are doubling at a slower pace: at 28 days.

The cases are increasing at about 3.5%/day while deaths are increasing at 2.4% / day. At the current rate, India will have about 41 million cases and 323,000 deaths by end of October 2020.

Note:

1. I have assumed that cases and deaths increase at the SAME rate to October as they are now.
2. Data till current date are actuals, while data for future dates (colored rows) are estimates.

Kashmir Belongs To?

https://www.dawn.com/news/1567717

"The iconic tiger should come to Pakistan, which, being the Muslim successor state after colonial India, should have a right to it."

The said tiger was taken from Srirangapatnam in Karnataka, more than 2000km away in South India. The author believes it belongs to Pak because Tipu Sultan was Muslim. No wonder Pak believes Kashmir belongs to Pak.

God help me if my wife was Muslim. These people will claim my wife too because of her religion.

The author of the article, as per Dawn, is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy.

Is this what they taught her in constitutional law?

Did she ever read property law? A stuff doesn't become yours just because the previous owner belonged to the same religion as you.

Factors Important For Our Well Being

1. Resilience : ability to bounce back after a (severe) fall
2. Stress taking: Ability to handle severe stress with grace
3. Smartness: Ability to avoid situations which likely are "losers" meaning situations that are not beneficial to us.

It's A Man's World

We have awards like Field's medal or Nobel prize or Olympic medal for achievement or excellence in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths), sports etc. 

How come we don't have an award or recognition for exceptional stress felt? 

Many people recognise emotions as the currency for achievement. These are the people who focus on how you felt or how I felt or how he made her feel as the primary way to evaluate human beings and not what you or I or she achieved in various fields.

How come we haven't yet gotten around to formally recognizing  emotions or advances in emotions? 
For example, there may be a new Princess who couldn't breath because of a pea in her bed. Or consider my friend who was flummoxed because her husband tested covid-19 positive when her daughter's birthday was around the corner. And the friend was torn apart by having to address the needs of both her husband and her daughter. Who recognised the turmoil she went through?

The well known awards such as Nobel or Olympics focus on a result. These results are a result of emotions such as desire, perseverance, drive / ambition. Without these emotions, results are unlikely to be achieved. Where is the formal acknowledgement of the richness of emotions that a person feels? 

How come, then, we focus our attention on an end result than on the lead indicator, aka emotions?

How come no one has taken up cudgels on behalf of emotions? 

Pregnant Chennai

Today I went out for a walk in the afternoon. It was cloudy and breezy. The city was glowing, positively looking beautiful. The lockdown added to the beauty. Everything was serene, hardly any traffic. 

In Tamil there is a saying that when a girl looks glowing and beautiful, she must be pregnant.

No, no. I think it goes like this. A girl, when she is pregnant, glows and looks beautiful. Yes that's it.

And Chennai looked positively pregnant today.

I imagined sitting on the coconut branch leaf without letting the man know so he could pull me also.

The following outstanding photos were taken today by a friend of mine. I don't reveal any name but she is an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu.

Wowowow.