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KEEP THE POWDER DRY

The Indian armed forces can justifiably boast of having played a sterling, even majestic role in protecting the nation against external threats, as well as safeguarding the strategic interests of the...

CAMUS’ UNHEROIC HEROES

When I read Nobel Laureate Albert Camus’ “The Plague” as a teenager, I shivered all the way through it. But when I put it down, I was relieved that I had returned to my own world and my own planet, fa...

EMPERORS OF GARBAGE

This is not the first time that India has faced an apocalyptic epidemic. Among my several experiences of having had to deal as a journalist with galloping, life-threatening, fast-spreading infectious ...

TO IRAN WITH LOVE

Quartz Africa editor Yinka Adegoke recently penned an astute little essay on the universality of pandemics. “I’m getting messages from friends in Lon­don, Madrid, Lagos and other places, who are readi...

CORONAVIRUS COULD BE FATAL TO MEDIA

The Media Today special section of the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), often called the most respected voice of press criticism, carries in its latest edition a fascinating piece by Jon ...

HE TOLD YOU SO!

Professor Arun Kumar is perhaps among the most distinguished economists of the world whose works on the black economy are considered the holy grail of knowledge on the complex subject. He has written,...

POISON

As of this writing, 42 human beings are dead and countless hundreds lie wounded in the hospitals of the nation’s capital because of the violence let loose on unsuspecting neighbourhoods by frenzied, o...

EXECUTIONER’S SONG

The judicial postponements, mercy petitions and reviews in the Supreme Court and High Courts, which have delayed the hanging of the convicted rapist-murderers of Nirbhaya, have once again ignited a na...

Box-Office Disaster

Since most of the national press has virtually stopped playing the role of critical watchdog, and the mainstream parties have been rendered politically impotent in mounting credible campaigns against ...

Not by the Supreme Court Alone

It is popular, even fashionable to judge the competence and independence of the Indian judiciary by examining the performance and pronouncements of the Supreme Court. This is a myopic way of assessing...

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