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annus horribilis 2020 :: a year of disaster or misfortune

 Catastrophic climate events including

  • major bushfires in Australia, US.
  • Tropical cyclones
  • devastating floods in India, China, Nepal, Japan - washing miles of fertile soil, displacing livelihood ex. Bihar floods
  • Climate Change
  • Outbreaks of violence
  • Persian gulf crisis deepens with killing of Iranian General & Iraqi Commander by US Drone attack in January.
  • Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist
  • Bloody civil wars in Afghanistan, Armenian-Azerbaijan, Central African Republic of Congo, Syria, Iraq, and in Ethiopia between Ruling Government and TPLF ( Tigray People Liberation front)
  • Rohingya Muslims fleeing their home in fear of ethnic cleansing,
  • Wuhan Virus spread, COVID 19 and its mutants pandemic
  • unplanned Lockdowns across world,
  • Abrogation to special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and its bifurcation,
  • Shaheen bagh Protest  against Indian Citizenship Amendment Act,
  • mass protest in US against Racial killing by police amids pandemic,
  • Farmers agitation amids pandemic at Delhi Borders,
  • Migrants walking hundred of kilometers to reach their house.

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