Saluting The COVID Heroes Townhall with Amitabh Bachchan honours the efforts of ordinary people who made extraordinary contribution to help those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes at great risk to their own lives.
This pandemic has taken away the activities and the things that form children’s personality and help in growth: Dr Amit Sen, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, and Director and Co-founder of Children First
Unlike other global disaster that we have had like Tsunami and the Gujarat earthquake, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is not a one-time scene, because those disasters often come and create havoc, death and destruction and then leave us to at least pick-up the pieces and rebuild our lives. But this is just ongoing and it never seems to end. Every time we try to raise our heads, it knocks us down. So, indeed the experience of everybody, particularly of children, adolescents, teenagers, has been traumatic deeply, particularly for those who are in the forefront of facing it- whether it is through deaths and devastation in the family, or complete loss of livelihood, and so on. So, it is imperative that we try and look at it from different lenses.