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Never let a good crisis go to waste

It is said "Every cloud has a silver lining". Positives can be taken out of every situation howsoever worse it may be. If nothing else, it at least offers a lesson. Progress, in normal times is organic, incremental and slow. Many a times a silver bullet for the problem exists but, it is procrastinated. Sometimes people become afraid of radical upheaval and keep the tasks to be done at bay. But, a moment of crisis takes away the luxury of procrastination, fear of change and vacillation. Such impact of crisis plays out at different levels. It can be an individual who has witnessed failure and looks to improve oneself or, it can be a community trying to address the existing social fault lines like "Black Lives Matter" protest in USA following George Floyd death. Even, national government recalibrates or sometimes revamps policy in the face of crisis, like many countries across the world have done during COVID-19 pandemic. A natural extension of it applies to the w...