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The Indian economy continues to struggle with infrastructural issues. (DC Photo)

The corona disruption and the impact on India

Even higher rates of unemployment engendered by a pandemic could stoke political instability

23 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

The Shaheen Bagh protest. (PTI)

Chanakya's View: Shaheen Bagh should see the big picture

Leaders of religious communities must come forward and take the right decision given the circumstances prevailing

22 March 2020 8:04 PM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi making his address to the nation.

Dear Nagriks Seeti bajaao taali bajaao

What we were handed out was a school master's lesson in model behaviour. The PM could easily have emailed it.

22 March 2020 7:39 PM IST

Amid siege outside, love finds a way in

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...

22 March 2020 6:10 AM IST

The experience of citizenship is not democratic for all citizens.

What caste are you, Corona?

For the middle class the care of the self that social distancing requires does not include taking care for their own...

22 March 2020 12:31 AM IST

Remember demonetisation? (DC photo)

As we battle corona, let's not forget the vulnerable

Invisible Indians cannot be forsaken like they were during the catastrophe of demonetisation

21 March 2020 1:02 AM IST

The scene outside the Tihar jail at dawn when the rape convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case were hanged.

AA Edit: Nirbhaya hangings were nothing to gloat about

Reactions from either side of the ideological divide were bereft of sobriety

21 March 2020 12:35 AM IST

Modi speaks and a huge majority of over a billion follow.

AA Edit: Shot off the citizen's shoulder, PM's salvo finds the target

When Modi appeals, citizens listen, as they did when they stood patiently in queues outside ATMs

21 March 2020 12:26 AM IST

This is a breach of the right to privacy.

AA Edit: Why does the government need cell phone data now?

The directive to telecom operators to provide CDRs of all mobile phone users in the country raises suspicions of...

20 March 2020 2:31 PM IST

People wearing protective masks in to protect against the coronavirus pandemic walk along the Ramlala market in Ayodhya on March 14, 2020. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is planning to hold a massive congregation of religious seers on the occasion of Ram Navami at Ayodhya from March 25 to April 2 despite the threat of the coronavirus (Covid-19). (PTI)

AA Edit: Ram Navami meeting at Ayodhya is an invitation to disaster

And Narendra Modi is having to choose between the holy men at the core of his constituency and his responsibilities as...

20 March 2020 12:42 PM IST

A man covers his face with a handkerchief as municipal workers spray disinfectant as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 outside at the Government Medical College in Jammu on March 19, 2020. (AP)

India must bridge huge gaps to tackle Covid-19

India has a law on epidemics that dates back to 1897

20 March 2020 8:53 AM IST

Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he arrives at his office in Tokyo on March 18, 2020. Abe said the country will expand quarantine measures and a ban on entry from parts of countries including Italy and Spain affected by the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

Inadequacies in corona combat threaten Tokyo Olympics

Inadequacies in fighting coronavirus raise questions over Tokyo Olympics

19 March 2020 10:13 AM IST