 speaking about law and public policy in my videos. Some people wrote back to me and commented on my videos that the subjects of law and public policy are too dry and I should break the monotony by sharing some other interesting things and facts. So let me make that attempt today. We have been hearing a lot these days about the word curfew. Do you know what its origin is? Well, it comes from the old French phrase kouafu which means cover fire. It was later adopted into the Middle English as curfew which later became the modern curfew. Its original meaning refers to a law made by William the Conqueror that all lights and fires should be covered at the ringing of an eight o'clock bell to prevent the spread of destructive fire within the communities in timber buildings. So that is how the expression or word curfew came into being. But interestingly, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has coined and invented and discovered an interesting new word called janta curfew. In English we can call it people's curfew. Janta curfew or in other words self-imposed curfew was introduced by PM Modi as an effort to prevent and combat coronavirus spread in India in the wake of 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The Prime Minister implored all citizens of India to observe a self-imposed curfew from 7am to 9pm Indian standard time on Sunday 22nd March 2020 to help reduce community spreading of coronavirus disease in India. And this expression janta curfew now finds its mention in Wikipedia and several other literature over the internet.