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The closed-down Prince of Wales pub in southwest London displays a sign thanking the National Health Service. (AFP)

Atlas shrugged: All it takes is a zombie virus to stop our world

Just the other day we were watching the lockdown in Wuhan and were appalled that people could be quarantined in their own country

31 Mar 2020 2:42 PM

TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)

Covid-19 is this century’s global inflection point

In the post-Covid-19 world the institutions of global governance would have to be revisited and remodelled

31 Mar 2020 11:56 AM

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 Mar 2020 6:29 PM

Dilli Ka Babu: Babu in demand

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

29 Mar 2020 6:07 PM

Exposure Day

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

29 Mar 2020 5:46 PM

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 Mar 2020 4:06 PM

An Indian migrant worker's 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 world's 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 Mar 2020 7:23 AM

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 time of corona

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

28 Mar 2020 7:25 PM

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 Mar 2020 10:35 PM

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 setback

25 Mar 2020 10:54 AM

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 Mar 2020 8:57 PM

A vegetable vendor pushes his bicycle loaded with vegetables on an empty street during a complete lockdown amid growing concerns of coronavirus in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 24, 2020. Authorities have gradually started to shutdown much of the country to contain the outbreak. (AP)

Lockdowns are overkill, and won’t tame the virus

The silence of economic graveyards can be very expensive for struggling economies like ours

24 Mar 2020 7:49 PM

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of a Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai, March 23, 2020. As India expanded its virus-containment measures and halted its lifeblood train network, the federal government warned Monday of strict legal action for those who flout the rules. (AP)

Crisis exposes lacunae in India’s public welfare

As usual the poor will be the hardest hit by the coronavirus fallout

24 Mar 2020 7:51 AM

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 Mar 2020 7:23 AM

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 Mar 2020 8:04 PM

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 Mar 2020 7:39 PM

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 household chores

22 Mar 2020 12:31 AM

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

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

21 Mar 2020 1:02 AM

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 Mar 2020 8:53 AM

Japan's 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 Mar 2020 10:13 AM

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