The paper has a dual focus. One, is to use India as a case study to reflect upon the political, economic and socio-cultural structures of the country and how they shape the particular vulnerabilities in the society which have been aggravated in the COVID19 crisis-scape. Stories about Indian democracy, Casteism and Untouchability, Hindutva and Islamophobia emerging from the pandemic scenario have been extended to show global parallels. Stories of cultural resourcefulness and examples of people’s power in the Indian context have also been represented to provide a formative assessment of how India is faring in the pandemic crisis. Two, it gathers emergent questions about human and social life which are being re-emphasized and created by the pandemic for Psychology to focus on. It makes use of Indian psychological concepts to re-envision self-other relationships in Post Coronial world. It makes a plea for strengthening the critical-cultural approach in ‘Post-Coronial’ Psychology.

本文有双重重点。一种是以印度为案例研究，以反思该国的政治，经济和社会文化结构，以及它们如何塑造社会上的特殊脆弱性，而这些脆弱性在COVID19危机中加剧了。关于印度民主，种姓制和不可接触性，大流行情况下出现的印度教和仇视伊斯兰的故事已经扩展到显示全球相似之处。在印度背景下，文化资源丰富的故事和人们的权力实例也得到了代表，以形成对印度在大流行危机中的发展状况的形成性评估。第二，它收集了有关人类和社会生活的新问题，心理学流行病对此予以了重新强调和提出。它利用印度人的心理学概念来重新构想后加冕时代世界中的自我-他人关系。它呼吁加强“后殖民时代”心理学中的批判文化方法。