Adrift: The world we passed in 2020

The year that passed saw the humanity scramble—first to make sense of the threat that made us retreat, and later to cope with the idea of retreat itself—and here we are at the beginning of a new year, adrift, making sense of our vulnerability as a race
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Published: Jan 4, 2021
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Image by : Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

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A month before the pandemic would hit Japan, men dressed in loincloth prepare to snatch a wooden stick called "shingi" tossed by the priest during a naked festival at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The person who grabs the wooden stick is considered the "luckiest man of the year". February 15, 2020