Devil is in the Demand

In times of great trouble, more often than not, I have found that returning to nature & her laws can provide man with the requisite guidance to navigate choppy waters and ferocious winds. We are completing nearly two months of a differently regulated lock-down and we once again stand at an interesting junction that demands us to redefine our priorities and re-balance between immediate risk to lives vs. economic hardships (a longer term, more drawn out, more slow and equivalent in pain/loss if not more). As we step into a post-COVID world, Government of India is coming up with a slew of interventions & stimuli to reboot our economy. The announcements are being done in tranches and the broad theme of these moves has clearly emerged which I shall elaborate later. While some of us are upbeat, some are not glad with the announcements. During the course of this write-up, taking the Rs. 20 lac crore economic package as a context, I'd be pondering upon the role of the government, economic demand generation concerns, possible stable solution and few of the many questions that the outbreak of the #ChineseWuhanCoronavirus has possibly catalyzed. I am hoping that my loud pondering will assist the reader in exploring the events happening around and likewise aid my own thought process & development as well.