![]() Donald Trump, ever eager to swim against the tide of wisdom, has declared that he would not don a mask while meeting other heads of states. ![]() A number of influential faces remain unmasked: the countenance of the president of the United States of America counts among them. But this change in habit, even though it is necessary for the survival of the species, remains far from universal. A sea of masked faces, for example, is the new normal in cities - Wuhan in China, Lombardy in Italy and even the Indian capital - limping back to life having stared death in the eye. For in a world sneezing and wheezing under the assault of a virus, the mask, although not in its wooden avatar, has emerged as a symbol of changing realities. ![]() ![]() Now, more than two decades later, life seems to be imitating art. In the film, The Mask - it had set the cash registers jingling in the early 1990s - the life of an ordinary man had been transformed after - there are no prizes for guessing this - a wooden mask gave him the power to alter his surroundings. ![]()
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