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A boy and a girl roam in a deserted street during the current coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Is the world all set to experience a ‘Coronaissance’?

The Great Bubonic Plague primed Europe for the Renaissance

10 Apr 2020 8:43 PM

Migrant workers line up outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal in New Delhi to leave for their villages in the wake of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown announced by prime minister Narendra Modi. On March 28, tens of thousands of migrant workers fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by Uttar Pradesh to go to their home towns. (AFP)

Why PM Modi should make a call to Naveen Patnaik

The Odisha CM would have some valuable insights on how to plan for a disaster

29 Mar 2020 8:35 AM

Buses carrying members of a medical assistance team from Shenyang leave Shenyang Taoxian Airport upon their return home after helping with the COVID-19 coronavirus recovery effort in Wuhan, in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province on March 20, 2020. China on March 19 marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported cases threatened its progress. (AFP)

China begins Information Warfare

What China does not seem to understand is that even if she wins a few IW battles, this will not help her to become a respected state

23 Mar 2020 6:06 PM

When you are quarantined with your parents, is it house arrest?

Amid siege outside, love finds a way in

Finally I have been able to accomplish the two basic human needs without having to fret or fight: to love and be loved in return

22 Mar 2020 6:10 AM

In American troops in Afghanistan. The US is keen to end its longest-ever conflict, and under the terms of a deal signed in Doha last month has said all foreign forces will quit Afghanistan within 14 months -- provided the Taliban stick to their security commitments. (AFP)

In post-US Afghanistan, what are India’s options?

New Delhi has to move beyond its wait and watch policy

18 Mar 2020 11:55 PM

A municipal worker cleans the floor of a room to be used as an isolation ward for coronavirus asymptomatic people at an athletic stadium in Hyderabad, March 17, 2020. (AP)

The rising China virus threat: For India, a spell of self-isolation is not a bad idea

India should never get involved wholeheartedly in the business of globalisation, which has turned out to be a bit of a myth anyway

17 Mar 2020 9:21 PM

Shoppers wearing masks are faced with partially empty shelves at a supermarket in London on March 14, 2020, as consumers worry about product shortages, leading to the stockpiling of household products due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Faced with supermarkets being emptied and online shopping overrun due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UK retailers are appealing to consumers to come to their senses and ensure that the country will not run out of food. (AFP)

London Diary: We can't have a herd immunity approach to coronavirus in Britain

For herd immunity to work, experts say around 60 per cent of the population, some 40 million people, need to catch the virus

16 Mar 2020 6:40 PM

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his release from detention on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

Farooq’s Abdullah's silence is a statement

People in Kashmir have grown sceptical about Dr Abdullah’s next move

16 Mar 2020 4:39 PM

A woman shows the remains of her savings burnt in the recent violence in Delhi. (PTI)

Memories of another riot: Lessons of 1984 not learnt

The Congress Party never recovered from that genocide. But nor did we, says Saikat Datta

13 Mar 2020 9:33 PM

In this March 2, 2020 photo, a worker wearing a mask works at a factory producing bicycle wheel rims in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. (AP)

Can globalisation survive the corona shock?

The coronavirus could not have struck at a more ominous moment for globalisation

12 Mar 2020 3:00 PM

Workers wear masks as they manufacture shoes at a factory in the town of Xiangtang, Nanchang county in eastern China's Jiangxi Province. The ruling Communist Party has told local officials to help reopen factories that were idled by the most intensive anti-disease controls ever imposed. (AP)

All nations scramble for solutions as ‘Made in China’ coronavirus spreads

The saddest part is that mankind is unlikely to have learnt any lessons, as in the past

12 Mar 2020 1:11 PM

Mystic Mantra - Hand-in-hand: Equal, enlightened, empowered

IWD 2020 is special since it marks the 25th anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

07 Mar 2020 7:14 AM

Mantri on rampage: Priti Patel is bullying London’s top babus

This investigation will look into whether Ms Patel’s behaviour in high office transgressed the ministerial code.

07 Mar 2020 7:09 AM

Will ‘socialist’ Bernie or ‘moderate’ Biden be best bet to take on Trump?

Whether Donald Trump will return or not depends on whether voters consider winnability as the most important factor for the contending Democrat.

07 Mar 2020 7:07 AM

Thana ‘welcome desks’? End cop-neta nexus

Someone did the maths and figured at any given time, 194 Mumbai constables will be busy smiling and offering water to the public.

07 Mar 2020 7:05 AM

t, the irony is, we don’t seem to deliberate on any thought connecting to such a vision when things are hunky-dory.

Mystic Mantra: Stay rooted to up your inner calm

This is the foundational touchstone for having faith in oneself and one’s own voyage through life.

06 Mar 2020 2:47 AM

Although the Telangana state government has responded to the 2015 heatwave shock by coming up with a heat action plan every year, whether it is really serving the purpose remains a question. (Representational Image)

Can the state of Telangana take on the heat stress this year?

Another set of workers who are particularly affected are around coal mines and thermal power plants.

06 Mar 2020 2:45 AM

The Soviet Union went nuclear in August 1949, and the idea of controlling the spread of nukes quickly lost its vogue. (Representational Image)

NPT at 50: Past imperfect, future uncertain

In exchange for countries’ pledges not to develop nukes, the US in exchange would hand over its own nuclear weapons.

06 Mar 2020 2:43 AM

Instead of getting into obscure mysticism to explain this simple and profound phenomenon, Osho gives an example of the everyday human experience.

Mystic Mantra: The inseparable opposites of yin and yang

The day has the active yang energy which melts into the restful yin of darkness. So, the art of living consists in balancing these two energies.

05 Mar 2020 2:05 AM

Leading the pack is Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of the JUI-F, who has called upon his followers to use whatever means at their disposal against the participants.

A culture that bans films is afraid to face the truth

The government’s retraction of the permission to screen Zindagi Tamasha gave certain religious elements a greater sense of empowerment.

05 Mar 2020 2:02 AM

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