Saleh Al-Shaibany (*),Scribe, columnist, writer and academic What can I say about the Coronavirus that has not been said before? That it plays havoc in people’s lives and wreck their livelihood? Or will it be spot on if I say personal relationships are on the edge as...
Dana Al Sarhani ICV Special Projects Lead, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) (OMAN)Corona has cast an indelible mark and will be embedded in global history. The pandemic has and will change the global order too. One still finds it difficult to believe that a tiny...
Syeda Zainab Zaidi,Student of graphic designing, Mumtaz area, Muscat (OMAN) Someone is staring at me from the corner of the room, slowly swishing his tail as though he was preparing to attack me! In reality, my big fur ball was just staring at me and wanted to...
Ramachandran NairQHSSE & Compliance Manager (OMAN) Recently, during the lockdown, when I couldn’t go to office, I took the ‘office’ home! Jokes apart, and although it consumed quite a bit of my time, I did manage to construct a paperboard replica of our company’s...
Sam David Mathew Entrepreneur, President, World Malayali Council (Oman province) (OMAN) It’s good to practice cleanliness and hygiene, but let us also practice keeping our hearts clean Like many, I had BIG hopes for 2020. I started the year with a smile. With...
Godwin D'Cruz Marketing and management specialist, trainer, performance coach, mentor Mumbai (INDIA) I am a marketing and management specialist and a trainer and more. But for the moment, I am at a loss of words when it comes to describing how this wretched pandemic...
By Yash Tiwari (*) Author (A Celebration in Tribulation, PANDEMIC 2020 - Rife Of The Virus) Public speaker The COVID-19 brought the entire world to a standstill - figuratively, as well as literally. I have grown watching movies like 2012 and Contagion where the masses...
Bellu Kuttappa Commercial manager, Founder member, Team Coorg Muscat hockey team (OMAN) You can’t learn them from schools, colleges or universities I am a good learner. And in the more than three decades of my blessed stay in this beautiful country (Oman), I have...
Sayyid Ali Sibtain Naqvi Former technical advisor, Oman Olympic Committee Sports consultant, Future Management and Economic Consultancy (OMAN) I have seen a lot in my 91 years. For instance, in 1947, as a young Indian youth, I witnessed the great historical divide,...
By Santrupth G R Vedanthi Student, Computer Engineering, Pennsylvania university (USA) COVID-19 has put all of us on a tough path. And it is a journey that has not ended. Some of us have got the hang of it and are coping, learning to be on track, others are still very...
Believe in gratitude; be thankful to the supreme power; be thankful that you are living a life that most aren’t living – believe that you will rise and shine again. Dr Priti Sambhalwal Human Resources Management expert, Columnist, Trainer (OMAN) Charles Darwin said,...
Minal Edwards Student, Dubai Scholars Private School (DUBAI) Shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset will help us change the challenges, we experience in this pandemic, to opportunities “August 28th, 2020, Dear Diary, The numbers of those affected by the virus go...
