Home » Opinion

Opinion - Page 607

This is Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath following social distancing while holding a meeting with his staff but before that he was all set to disregard national directives on avoiding mass meetings. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay: Divisiveness, impunity hurts anti-Covid battle

Instead of uniting in the face of peril, we have bowed to pseudo religion and its accomplice pseudo-science

10 April 2020 11:50 PM IST

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 April 2020 8:43 PM IST

Hydroxychloroquine has suddenly emerged into the strategy to tackle the current Covid-19 pandemic. It is yet unproven in scientific studies but Dr Donald Trump is sure its the cure. (AP)

AA Edit: The Nobel Prize for medicine men

Whoever gets the Prize for peace, no strongman will get it for medicine or economics

10 April 2020 6:03 PM IST

A boy grimaces as a nasal swab is taken to check for Covid-19 infection in Ahmedabad on April 10, 2020. (AP)

AA Edit: The lockdown is fine, but step up the testing

The examples of Bhilwara and Kerala indicate that aggressive testing is the key to defeating the coronavirus

10 April 2020 5:12 PM IST

Forensic officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz to conduct an investigation into the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus at a congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat in mid-March. (PTI)

Covid's TJ factor: Shun prejudice, stick to facts

The vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat is nothing but transparent majoritarian prejudice in full display

9 April 2020 3:40 PM IST

Sonia Gandhi has suggested a blanket 30 per cent cut in expenditure. (File photo: PTI)

AA Edit: Sonia Gandhi's suggestions are welcome but not bold enough

Congress president recommends austerity when in fact the government needs to spend more not less

9 April 2020 2:19 AM IST

Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-malarial drug that has been anecdotally, but not scientifically, linked to treatment of Covid-19. (AP)

AA Edit: India's export of HCQ is humanitarian

Indo-US strategic ties are based on much more than the optics of one drug deal

9 April 2020 1:42 AM IST

Gypsy women prepare lunch in their hut in New Delhi on April 4, 2020. (PTI)

What social distancing is possible in a hut?

37% of Indians live in a one-room dwelling, and 32% in a two-room house/dwelling

9 April 2020 12:31 AM IST

Anupam Mishra, sub-collector of Kollam, Kerala. (Photo: lbsnaa.gov.in)

Dilli Ka Babu: Quarantine fugitive IAS officer booked for going AWOL

The young officer was ordered to remain in isolation after he returned from Singapore

8 April 2020 9:36 PM IST

Police personnel keep vigil as workers transport medical supplies in New Delhi on April 08, 2020. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

AA Edit: Stop sending messages, send Covid test kits

The government's decision to suspend the MPLAD scheme and cut MPs' salaries is rich in symbolism and poor in substance

8 April 2020 8:30 PM IST

Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao argued for extending the lockdown by at least two more weeks.

AA Edit: Yes, a lockdown for as long as it takes

Till there are no new Covid-19 cases, India must stay at home

8 April 2020 5:56 PM IST

File photo of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers distributing food to people in Ahmedabad on March 29, 2020. (PTI)

Anita Katyal: This meal, brought to you by you-know-who

Not just Modi and RSS, even Pinarayi Vijayan wants it known he's been doing good work

7 April 2020 10:33 AM IST