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Covid-19: Testing Times

Hours after having advised “rapid antibody tests” in “hotspot areas” in an interim advisory, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) left the decision to states and put out a list of such tests ...

Donald Trump: A Wartime President?

Most of America is locked down or ordered to stay at home to suppress the Covid-10 pandemic. Traffic has disappeared and only a cyclist intrudes now and then to demonstrate that people are still alive...

The Unseen Costs of Lockdown

On March 11, WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic—an indication of its possible contagion. This created global pandemonium. As a result, financial markets crashed, production of goods and services ...

Allahabad High Court Provides Access to Justice

The Indian judiciary is the protector of the fundamental rights of citizens and the guardian of the Constitution. The Supreme Court and High Courts are given the powers to protect, safeguard and uphol...

Privacy in Public Space

Privacy enthusiasts sometimes claim that the Right to Privacy does not extinguish in a public space. Recently when the Delhi Police used the face recognition to identify people engaged in riot through...

Call Data Records: Much Ado About Nothing?

There have been news reports that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sent out unusual requests to some telecom operators for call data records. The requests have reportedly been made to ci...

Recurring Corona Dreams

I am alone in a large office building.  There are a few robot-like figures posted here and there. I can hear the muted but stead clutter of keyboards. I can sense the gathering darkness.  I tell mysel...

Trapped and Far from Home

For those of us from India who travelled abroad for pursuing graduate studies in the hopes of better job prospects, things seem to have backfired during this pandemic attack. Unable to now return home...

Closed States of America

All across the US, in cities, big and small, at the beaches and lakefronts, in mountain resorts, everywhere, there are empty hotels and airports because of the government-ordered shutdowns, social dis...

Mother Nature Breathes Again

The corona lockdown in India has had many deleterious effects on society which suddenly finds itself coming to a grinding halt. But the one positive effect it has had is on the environment which has f...

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