2020 Flashback: 12 stories, 12 months that changed India forever 2020 Flashback: 12 stories, 12 months that changed India forever By any standards, 2020 will forever be remembered as the bearer of a global economic meltdown brought about by a deadly contagion -- the novel coronavirus. Here is an attempt to look back at events and stories that captured the attention of Indians this year. advertisement [REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] (Photo Credits: PTI) To describe 2020 as yet another year would be a great injustice. Almost a hundred years after the Spanish Flu instilled fear in the hearts and minds of people across the globe, regardless of their nationality or the colour of their skin, an unholy encounter between a bat and what is speculated to be a pangolin, pushed the human race to the brink of chaos in 2020.