Presidential Inauguration. Sipra Roy Words=.
We passed over the cursed year of 2020 wrapped in uncomfortable comforter of pandemic fever.
Election, the most important event of democracy is over ; The inauguration ceremony of the New President was celebrated , -all peacefully . The noises from 2016 to 2020 were multiple Some were old existing problem :such as Climate pollution, Global warming Ice-melting, demographic change , immigration issue , racism , Census and apprehension about Election year , ripple of "Black Life Matters" amidst the pandemic virus and so on... Finally unprecedented tsunami of Covid-19 shook the global plinth with fear, with insecurity and morbid psychosis ! Though the problem was global ,but for America , its impact was too grave to count on .Because 2020 was the year of Presidential Election.
Suspension continued to its pinnacle starting from March onward with more deaths , more misfortune more uncertainty. America , though awkward and awfully unprepared in the beginning with number of deaths and shortage of medical appliances still handled the problem efficiently , both external problems of finance , food job education , and simultaneously internal flow of emotional tide. Overflowing human love and empathy surged the distress of pandemic morphia.
Internet (Zoom ) performed an enormous philanthropic job ! Zoom has crafted the fissure of "social distances' by. arranging various activities and entertainments and saved the society from being crippled . Man and machine had never been so friendly to combate this bio-warfare with joint effort !Perhaps this pandemic will change our perception as well as our vision about digital age and AI . 2020 will be marked as epochal year in the history of this millennium.
Election took place on the right date with exact precision and without hassle .Some undesired incidents happened which were not big issue. Water of ocean or flowing river never remain calm at the surface level ; there are waves, and ripples, even in rivulet and America is such a large country /(continent?).
It surprises me to notice the lack of American enthusiasm in the post-election and post inauguration era. As it often happens to racing participants who gasp or nearly about faint as they reach near to the "end" sign post in Marathon race.
Has America reached the 'golden age' of poetry ? Hope it is not a lucky lottery of emotional product or some emotional fever!
A young 22 year poetess Amanda Gorman has come to the lime light, to the people and the country......... right time , right person , right words (for climbing up on the top !)
Neither the defeat of Trump nor the victory of Biden has been focussed as to the expectation. Right after the inauguration, people were about praising the poetess so profusely , that other events remained under shadow .
2021 has brought us hope after prolonged waiting . The vaccine to protect against the virus of Covid 19 was discovered ;and also opened a new horizon simultaneously : a tectonic shift of a globally reputed capitalist country, as if , to the dramatic land of elites singing the victory of a poet ! So ridiculous and fussy!
Well, ...."History has its eyes on us"!
But how deep, and how profound?
Let us wait and see!
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