Covid19 & The Economic Cost of a Fear

The Kautilyan Perspective column by U Mahesh Prabhu

Let me start with an ancient Vedic Sanskrit tale:

A long time ago, the goddess of disease went from village to village, making people severely sick. However, in one village, the village goddess stopped her from entering since she was morally bound to protect them. The goddess of disease argued, It is your Karma (virtue) as well as Dharma (Duty) to protect it is mine to cause illness and death to balance the population on Mother Earth. We...