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The disruptive corona pandemic caused India to witness a devastating crisis common to the whole world. Earth turned into a “global village” (McLuhan in Understanding Media—The Extensions of Man, McGraw Hill, New York, 1964) where each and every person of each and every community and locality strived towards a common attack of the infectious disease Covid-19. It has been haunting India since January 2020 and its turbulent tremors led to a massive acquisition of the virus with lakhs of people becoming contagion to it and thousands dying. This phenomenon came as a blow towards the social and economic impetus of India. Covid-19s colossal wreck paved towards lockdown of the entire nation which, in turn, rendered a severe loss worth billions of earnings of the government, along with, the impairment towards employment, production process, cultivation, social order and many other national, economic and societal issues. The present study is an attempt towards a discourse analysis of the socio-economic impact of the common corona culture caused by coronavirus on India.
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Bhattacharjee, A. (2021). Corona Thwack: Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in India. In: Agrawal, R., Mittal, M., Goyal, L.M. (eds) Sustainability Measures for COVID-19 Pandemic. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3227-3_2
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