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A policeman pulls the remains of an anti new citizenship law banner as local authorities clear the protest site of Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi on March 24, 2020. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi: Shaheen Bagh stir recast in tune with the Covid times

Guided by common sense, the women of Shaheen Bagh have been extraordinarily focused on the Constitution

29 March 2020 6:29 PM IST

Dilli Ka Babu: Babu in demand

Ashwin Lohani has been tasked to harness the tourism potential of Andhra Pradesh

29 March 2020 6:07 PM IST

Look what I found.

Exposure Day

What it used to be like in the pre-quarantine days

29 March 2020 5:46 PM IST

I will get my hands in the soil and nose in flour, my fingers inky with new writing and missives to the elderly and my eyes set firmly on the beautiful four who are my world.

A lockdown love letter to my beautiful planet

This time when I self-isolate, it will be for a better tomorrow.

29 March 2020 4:06 PM IST

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 March 2020 8:35 AM IST

An Indian migrant workers family is silhouetted as they make the journey to their village by foot, following a coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi, India on March 28, 2020. Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of New Delhi to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the worlds largest coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people, mostly young male day laborers but also families, fled their New Delhi homes after prime minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown that began on Wednesday and effectively put millions of Indians who live off daily earnings out of work. (AP)

Testing key to lockdown's success, as fear of starvation looms

What will happen when the state apparatus needs to act beyond its capacity to cater to lakhs and crores of infected?

29 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

The obvious way forward in the toilet paper crisis is to require every TV station to make demonstrative ads showing people how to use their left hands.

Of Cabbages and Kings: Toilet manners, etiquette and business ideas in...

Much is being made of the toilet paper crisis but there could be profit in this plague

28 March 2020 7:25 PM IST

Firefighters spray disinfectant to contain the new coronavirus Covid-19 on a street in Guwahati on March 25, 2020. (AP)

All-round approach vital to fight Covid-19

By acting in unison, we can cut the chain of transmission and take the sting out of the disease

26 March 2020 10:35 PM IST

A statue of a discus thrower stands opposite Athens Panathenaic stadium or Kalimarmaro, where the first modern Olympic Games began, in Athens, one day after the historic decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan on March 25 started the unprecedented task of reorganising the Tokyo Olympics after the historic decision to postpone the worlds biggest sporting event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has locked down one third of the planet. (AFP)

AA Edit: Olympics makes the sacrifice

There can be no winner in this battle against Covid-19, only survivors

26 March 2020 6:50 PM IST

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of the Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai. (File photo: AP)

AA Edit: Centre must plan for Lakshman Rekha

The Lakshman Rekha poses no hazard to those who have an assured income but what about the 50 crore daily-wage earners?

26 March 2020 6:32 PM IST

Omar Abdullah speaking to reporters after his release from detention. (AA Photo: Habib Naqash)

Far & Near: Kashmir after the Abdullahs' release

If the NC and PDP now show common purpose, efforts by the Centre to degrade the Abdullahs' party is likely to receive a...

25 March 2020 10:54 AM IST

Police personnel mask up while preparing for a drill during the coronavirus lockdown in Jaipur on March 24, 2020. (PTI)

Coronavirus has a message for us humans

This calamity is imploring us to regain our humanity, with intelligence and benevolence

24 March 2020 8:57 PM IST