Life requires renewal in these dark times

his is rather personal. With the coronavirus pandemic ravaging lives around the world, the sense grows in many of us, indeed in millions of us, that life ought to go back to basics. And that is the consequence of the unreality we observe day after day on television screens, with thousands of our fellow citizens here in Bangladesh making the long journey back home to their village homesteads. There is the lockdown; there is the paramount need to stay home. There is an absolute necessity of keeping the virus at bay.