Sujit Mahapatra

Pandemics In History – 9: How They Influenced History

There is a lot of speculation currently about how COVID-19 is going to change our lives and the course of…

May 3, 2020

Pandemics In History- 8: Disease As Weapon

When pandemics have led to persecution of certain communities, which has been pretty common as we discussed in the previous…

May 2, 2020

Pandemics In History – 7: Pandemics And Persecution

On April 6, 2020, Subroto Bagchi, chief spokesperson of the Odisha government for COVID-19 pandemic, warned in his daily briefing…

May 1, 2020

Pandemics In History 6: Pandemonium In Puri

India bore the brunt of the pandemics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the plague pandemic and the…

April 30, 2020

Pandemics In History – 5: India And Pandemics

The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that long long back it was a maxim that the plague never appeared east of the Indus…

April 29, 2020

Pandemics In History 4: A Tale Of Two Countries

A research sponsored by the Chinese Government in 2019 had warned of a new coronavirus from bats in China. “The…

April 28, 2020

Pandemics In History 3: From Rats To Bats

Before the 20th century, the plague caused by rats was the recurring pandemic (there had been other pandemics though like…

April 27, 2020

Pandemics In History 2: Rats And The Plague

Historically, most pandemics happened when the viruses were shipped away across the globe. The plague, the deadliest recurring pandemic in…

April 25, 2020

Pandemics In History 1: ‘Shipping’ The Virus

The day Satyanagar, where I stay, was sealed on April 8, 2020, I waited with bated breath at the stroke…

April 18, 2020

General KPD Samanta – A Hero Of Both War & Peace

I remember meeting General KPD Samanta for the first time, a few years back at a meeting of Rotary Heritage,…

April 13, 2020