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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

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

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

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 March 2020 7:49 PM IST

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 March 2020 7:51 AM IST

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

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