The Webinars

 

Conferences, seminars and symposiums were sponsored

Once in a year by academic institutes

With scrutiny of the strictest kind…

The new norm has transported everyone abroad

In a jiffy, with the onrush of emotion,

The need to strengthen ties with others

Across the length and breadth

Of this wonderful planet –

That so near threatens

To be taken over by a clever virus

That’s evolving every month for a better grip

On human life, animals and birds,

Devouring the richest heritage of medicine

In no time, straining all of human faculties.

 

The webinars have solved the quandary

Of distance, and through virtual exchanges

Much of knowledge is still spread,

Discussed, analyzed and reformed. Well,

Thanks to the time of the twenty first century

The century of hi-tech and the century of the internet;

Thanks to all the homework done before

Now work from home is not a problem.

We did not know what would befall this year

But we did want the speed of light.

From wheels of wood we have come this far

In our toils on this vast planet of ours

That no one should blame us

For lack of movement from place to place anymore.