Koel Purie Rinchet

An excerpt from Koel Purie Rinchet's debut book, Clearly Invisible in Paris.

Who are the heroes and who are the villains? Every story has good guys and bad guys and the best stories are when the bad guys, unexpectedly, do good deeds.

Getting out of the house is a contra-pandemic paraphernalia pandemonium.

How will unpausing play out? Will we be kinder to others, or treat them like culpable carriers of contagion and cross the road?

We all need to do a better job with our boys, or else stop calling them our boys and ensure that they are cast aside to rot alone.

Find your own metaphors but let death be part of life so that you can live to the fullest, fearlessly.

This new normal needs new rules.

For years women have been told to behave like men when they lead. Yet, the countries that are coping well with the Covid crisis, are all led by women. Is it time for a role reversal?

I’m still waiting for my eureka moment of perspective, where not going out makes me go within and I no longer feel the need to bang books on my head.

The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare leadership in each country, sealing the fate of its people as an invisible enemy wreaks havoc.