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Time to take a coffee break from work at home.

Confessions from corona containment

Sometimes it takes a deadly pandemic to show you the good, bad and ugly side of life…

06 May 2020 7:11 AM

To expect the Chinese to pay up for the loss of life and other losses on their own is to expect miracles to happen

Suing China: Wishful thinking or could it be a dream come true?

Many countries in the world feel that China deliberately lied and tried its best to coverup the whole issue

05 May 2020 7:45 PM

In this Oct. 23, 2017 file photo, Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan watches a Vivo Pro Kabaddi league match in Mumbai. AP Photo

Keeping at it

Zeeshan Hasan Akhtar writes about what Irfan meant to him

02 May 2020 6:20 PM

Employees are back at work at the construction site of the Wuhan Greenland Center, a 636-m high skyscraper in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. (AFP)

Tackling future Covids: Three things India needs to learn from China

We have an excellent disaster preparedness machinery. But it's time to have a disease preparedness system as well.

30 Apr 2020 11:59 PM

Telangana needs to regain its tax-earning capacities in the post-lockdown period. (DC Photo)

Telangana makes a departure on lockdown strategy

The state would do well to ease its lockdown restrictions in two phases

30 Apr 2020 11:19 PM

A worker cover his face with a mask as he takes a nap outside a closed shop in a market in New Delhi. Thousands of workers in major Indian cities have lost their jobs due to the shutdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (DC Photo; Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The shutdown is a device to shut out the Dalits

All those who have been nudged to the margins by the Covid-19 lockdown are invariably Dalit

29 Apr 2020 12:40 AM

A physically disabled man walks outside a deserted railway station in Guwahati on April 19, 2020. (AP)

Customise model of social distancing for the disabled

Home to 21 million disabled people, India has a daunting challenge ahead

25 Apr 2020 2:04 AM

Over 700,000 Indian students are studying abroad.

Amid corona crisis, what are the options for Indian students seeking to study abroad?

While the world is gripped in the panic of the coronavirus, it is important to keep in mind that this too shall pass

25 Apr 2020 1:36 AM

An Indian Finance Ministry employee walks carrying files outside the ministry building on April 20, 2020. An increasing number of officers are opting to work from home amid concerns over the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (AP)

Virtual working is just an option for post-corona times

What Covid-19 may indeed accelerate is a world that offers the option between physical and virtual ways of functioning

24 Apr 2020 8:31 PM

This is a good time to say goodbye to alcohol. (AP)

This is the right time to ban alcohol forever

A country that claims Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation should relinquish liquor in toto.

21 Apr 2020 11:44 PM

A security guard and worker wearing face masks walk past portraits of Chinese leaders (from left) Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, and Liu Shaoqi in the window of a photo studio in Beijing. (AP)

Chronicle of corona foretold: How China wrote the script many years ago

The year of the Corona Virus is a necessary chronicle in the grander narrative to establish China as the centre of the earth

21 Apr 2020 7:10 AM

The people have been in a virtual lockdown for a decade and a half now. (File Photo: PTI)

For red corridor to win Covid war, truce a must

The present situation also endangers both sides — the Indian armed forces and the PLGA

19 Apr 2020 5:02 PM

Wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus, South Korean president Moon Jae-in (left) and his wife Kim Jung-sook pose as they cast their votes in the election at a polling station in Seoul, South Korea on April 10, 2020. (AP)

Moon wins as Koreans back his strategy to tackle Covid-19

South Korea's coronavirus strategy has been widely praised by experts as well as WHO for being prompt, nationwide, clear and effective

18 Apr 2020 8:08 PM

Almost every political party swears by Dr Ambedkar even though the position of Dalits, minorities and other marginalized sections has barely improved since his death. (DC Photo: P Narasimha Murthy)

Revisiting Dr Ambedkar in contemporary India

The privileged sections have shaped a limiting image of Ambedkar

16 Apr 2020 10:57 PM

Central Reserve Police Force personnel prepare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits and face masks for healthcare staff at a CRPF facility in New Delhi on Tuesday, April 14,2020. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Fighting coronavirus is a battle in the dark

The virus' potency is magnified several times over by the socioeconomic conditions in developing countries

16 Apr 2020 12:37 AM

What's it going to be like when we're back on our feet. (DC Photo; Satish Basavaraj)

Imagining a safe India, after coronavirus

How should India reimagine and remake a post-coronavirus future?

15 Apr 2020 3:42 AM

Only a despotic government can tell its people not to help someone in need. (DC Photo: P Narasimha Murthy)

Banning giving charity to poor totally heartless

Tamil Nadu has a rich tradition of social work

15 Apr 2020 3:26 AM

A massive protest in Assam against mob violence in 2018. (PTI)

Fake news in the age of coronavirus is a flirtation with utter chaos

And yet, Supreme Court guidelines to prevent and punish mob violence remain in the books, unimplemented

15 Apr 2020 1:44 AM

File photo of the UN Security Council meeting in New York on February 26, 2020. (AFP)

The world must sue China

The pandemic will hopefully encourage nations to look at reform of the UN system and act against China’s irresponsible behaviour

13 Apr 2020 3:59 PM

File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi chairing a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority in New Delhi in 2018. (PIB)

Saikat Datta: Why we lurch from one disaster to another

We have no institutional memory of what worked and what didn't in past crises

11 Apr 2020 11:16 PM

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