Newsletter - December 2021

The year comes to a close as we spent a full year with the Corona Virus. It has been challenging during the times of the Delta variant that swept across the country with ferocity and we lost many people and later as the wave receded, we spent sometime with family during the festival months.

However, the new variant of the virus is now fully upon us and spreading very rapidly across the population. We are lucky that early observations show that this variant is largely like the seasonal flu and not like the Delta variant in severity and mortality. We pray and hope that it stays like that and all that we need to go through is some discomfort from having a cold and mild fever.

Our governments might go into protection mode and may ask us to curtail some social and commercial interactions. We need to keep an eye out for the trend in hospitalizations and deaths before panicking fully.

The new year is time for new resolutions - one resolution that I think we all should make is to focus on sustainability as a practice, rather than a buzzword, and look at sustainability in all aspects of our life.

Our consumption habits are not sustainable for the environment is something that most of us have now understood, however, we need to look at sustainability in areas like whether our business model and structure is sustainable or can be disrupted and what can be done to make it sustainable? The same can be extended for for our physical and spiritual well-being. Doing actions that sustain our health and well-being is critical.

We wish you a very happy new year and wish you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy.