The Regional Science Centre and Planetarium, Calicut
Jaffer Khan Colony Rd, Near New Bus Stand, Kozhikode Kerala 673006
In order to inculcate interest among the students in particular and public in general, Regional Science Centre (RSC) Calicut organised a number of webinars on various topics of scientific interest. One of them was ‘First Hand: Creating COVID Collections’.
As families, communities and colleagues around the world grapple in their own ways with the invisible threat of the novel coronavirus, humankind shares an unusually acute sense of traversing a period of deep historical import. Once-bustling downtown areas sit deserted while citizens everywhere sequester themselves for the common good. Social media platforms and teleconferencing services are ablaze with the messages of isolated friends and loved ones. As medical workers risk their lives daily to keep ballooning death tolls in check, musicians and comedians broadcast from their own homes in the hopes of lifting the spirits of a beleaguered nation. It is a time of both ascendant empathy and exposed prejudice, of collective fear for the present and collective hope for a brighter future.
"As families, communities and colleagues around the world grapple in their own ways with the invisible threat of the novel coronavirus, humankind shares an unusually acute sense of traversing a period of deep historical import. "
The speaker is a Historian of repute and a museologist par excellence. We hear from Dr. Sabyasachi Mukherjee the Director General, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya on 25th May at 4 PM.
