To Hope & Resilience

Year 2021 was that of resilience in the face of pain. The year was strewn with painful images—of large swathes of land dotted with burning pyres, of our holy rivers retching with the smell of death and spewing corpses on their banks, of lives and jobs gone astray. But it also etched pictures of unprecedented resilience in the face of one of humanity’s worst crises—of picking up the pieces left behind by the second wave of Covid, of building lives afresh using those pieces, of protecting ourselves against the vagaries of life and nature. The threat of Covid rendered unnatural the natural act of stepping out of our homes without thinking twice, but it also turned restrictions into the freedom to discover new avenues of investing, transacting and connecting online. It taught us how to savour the present while securing the future not just for ourselves but also for our...