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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...

Battle Royale

For the two grandchildren of the late Rajmata Gayatri Devi of Jaipur—Devraj Singh and Lalitya Kumari, the Bangkok-based inheritors of the properties worth several thousand crores—it was virtually a bo...

Watch the Truth Unfold

The present world scenario of chaos and disruption has thrown up several challenges with renewed emphasis on social distancing as a prerequisite to ensure public health and well-being. It emphasises t...

Covid-19 and the Mahabharata

On March 24, while announcing the unprecedented 21-day lockdown, the prime minister compared it to the war of Mahabharata which lasted all of 18 days. The insinuation was that if it took 18 days to fi...

Migrant Crisis and Civil Defence

The sight of a vast multitude of migrants attempting to leave the capital for their villages at any cost was a humanitarian nightmare. Was it inept mishandling by the state machinery or deliberate mis...

Boost Your Health

The number of people infected with Covid-19 continues to skyrocket, with nearly one million cases worldwide. But there’s no vaccine or cure for it, though human trials have started in the US based on ...

Draconian Measures

The clangs and claps of the March 22 Janata Curfew had hardly died down than Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on national TV at 8 pm on March 24 to declare a nationwide “sarkari curfew” of 21 day...

New Insurance Umbrella

In the time of Covid-19, a key concern of the public has been the expenses that will be incurred if they get infected. Will their health insurance policies cover the exp­enses and if they are denied, ...

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