KANPUR: Today is the world laughter day but the laughter is absent from every human face in the wide world. This is the tragedy of the present-day time. The whole of the world reels under the fear of coronavirus.
Laughter is the best medicine to remove distress. This annual event passed off sadly as laughter has no longer been find its space. Stress is not lowering owing to the odd situation persisting all around us.
Each face looks long in an uncertain period of critical time. People are not sure of a good time. Lockdown and social distancing brought one other to a different spectrum.
Talking to a wide range of people it becomes clear how are they not able to laugh at. One youth said: "Though laughter releases the agony, we are not laughing in fear of the pandemic." Another stated: "We have been passing our time in extreme impatience, so laughing is not possible." The third one pointed out that every moment of life stays on the mercy of Almighty. While the fourth one told, "if you try to laugh it will be a tough task as the mind is not free and the heart weeps blood in anguish".
