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Pavan K.Varma | Prophets of doom'? We all ignored India's poor

Court has finally intervened on behalf of the well-being of migrant workers

31 May 2020 9:07 PM IST

Waqyanawis | Coronavirus, the magic bullet against Hindu-Muslim discord in UP?

Waqyanawis | Coronavirus, the magic bullet against Hindu-Muslim...

In Uttar Pradesh, the Muslim clergy is rubbing its eyes in disbelief at the way chief minister Yogi Adityanath has...

31 May 2020 7:12 PM IST

Bela Bhatia | Comfy India would do well to brace for Aakrosh, 2020

Bela Bhatia | Comfy India would do well to brace for Aakrosh, 2020

Will the simmering anger lead to aakrosh a violence born from a virus of indifference?

31 May 2020 6:51 PM IST

How many women need not state their purpose before leaving the homestead, even to go to the park, especially to go to the park because it is a discretionary destination? AFP Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The almost-stigma' of not breaking quarantine

Being quarantined is, at its very benign, a social fact' in the life of the Bharatiya aurat

31 May 2020 12:30 AM IST

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (AP)

AA Edit | Reality bites Trump's alternate universe

Trump's work is clearly cut out on his home front

30 May 2020 7:50 PM IST

A Chinese soldier stands next to an Indian soldier at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China (AFP file photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Given China's psyche, can we take soft line'at...

The global pandemic has triggered utter destruction of the world economy and a full stop to China's Belt and Road...

30 May 2020 7:28 PM IST

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Shobhaa De | Where are our godmen when they are needed?

Mumbai experiences devastating floods, the authorities promptly trot out some more nonsensical statistics to justify...

30 May 2020 7:08 PM IST

In this file photo taken on September 03, 2019 Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and his special advisor Dominic Cummings leave from the rear of Downing Street in central London on September 3, 2019, before heading to the Houses of Parliament.AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | The curious friendship of Boris and Dominic

When Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street, he hired Dominic Cummings as chief adviser, a post which gave him more...

30 May 2020 12:15 AM IST

AA Edit | The pandemic exploiters

AA Edit | The pandemic exploiters

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the importance of the public health system back to the forefront.

29 May 2020 8:05 PM IST

Migrants walk along a platform after deboarding a special train at Charbagh railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Lucknow. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Show compassion to our guest workers

The apex court has, over the decades, used constitutional provisions to remind the governments of their responsibility

29 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

: Passengers undergo thermal screening before they board buses at KSRTC bus stand after Karnataka government eased the relaxation to allow inter-district travel by buses, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, at Devanahalli near Bengaluru. PTI Photo

Dilli Ka Babu | Karnataka officer who spoke for guest workers gets...

The transfer seems to have shocked many people within the government as well as the public

29 May 2020 7:25 PM IST

Migrants, who have arrived from Surat in Gujarat, walk to board buses to reach their native places, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. PTI Photo

Anand K Sahay | Atma Nirbhar Bharat': A mantra to mask failure?

When the lockdown came without notice, and the regime left the 400 million informal sector in the lurch, the Indian...

28 May 2020 7:25 PM IST