Published in The Business Standard on Sunday 7 June 2020
With regular life having resumed since May 31, Business Standard spoke to renowned personalities to find out what new wisdom they have gained from the two-month lockdown in April and May.
After two long months, our official general public holiday or self-quarantine has ended. People are trying to start their normal life again. This experience is going to leave its mark and stay with us forever.
We reached out to a few educationists, economists and entreprenuers for their thoughts, realizations and learnings during this period. In their own words:
Dr Fahmida Khatun
Executive Director at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Surprisingly, I have noticed that few offices do not even need physical office to work. They can continue this work from home further and simply save the money. So I have realized that it will create a social impact too as it will decrease the pressure of traffic on roads.
Currently, I am not wasting three hours in a day trapped in traffic, and as a result while saving my energy. Hence, I have been working more to meet early deadlines, reviving good habits at home like reading books, writing and bonding with my loved ones.
I have learnt that for our loved ones we should protect nature and stop running after materialistic things. Those are meaningless, in the end. This whole world should invest more and more money on health and medical research and so should Bangladesh.