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Earth Calling Lab Rats

As the world flails around before COVID-19, the superstructure of human scientific ingenuity girds its loins to beat back the scourge

DEPARTING BY LAMPLIGHT

Socio-economic pressure made thousands of Malayalis take up nursing jobs abroad. In the decades since, along with other migrants, they are a force that has changed Kerala’s society and economy.

Coronation Club Eleven

Are Sonia Gandhi and Congress ready to allow Rahul to run the party on his own terms?

A Test Case In Testing Times

Holes in MP’s hazmat suit are showing—a CM without a health minister fights a pandemic; private hospitals are getting to treat more coronavirus patients than AIIMS, Bhopal

Is Corona A Job Virus?

Within catastrophe lies opportunity. If only we can manage to reinvent ourselves.

Pink Slip Or Pay Cheque?

Post-lockdown, the world of work won’t be what we used to know. For many, the uncertainty of livelihood would likely linger much longer, and be no less painful.

Save Business to Save People

Instead of forcing businesses to pay employees, there are better ways for the government to do good by helping business stay afloat during and after the crisis

MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI DONATES ₹13 CRORES FOR COMBATING CORONA

The Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Kollam, Kerala, always in the forefront of social upliftment through education, health and its several other initiatives, has liberally donated from Rs 10 crore to the PM CARES and Rs 3 crores to the Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDR Fund) to combat the virulent Covid-19, even as the world is at its wits’ end to contain its devastating rampage across continents.

Incovidient Questions

Even as she exudes confident control in her televised administrative meetings, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has reasons to be worried. They go beyond the matrix of operations involved in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, from feeding the needy and protecting health workers to contact tracing—the Centre and the BJP have sharply attacked the Trinamool government over handling the pandemic.

Peace by Piece

The Taliban angrily withdraws from talks with Kabul. The United States, the initiator, is preoccupied with fighting COVID-19.

When Stalin and Mother Teresa Agree

A scientist responds to the human tragedy that is COVID-19, and asks questions of science and society.

Guns Of Never End

Lockdown—political and pandemic—brings peace to Kashmir, but a new militancy is rising.

Altered State of Governance

How the fight against COVID-19 is changing the way the government works

Trauma In The Age Of The Virus

Disrupting the rhythm of our everyday life, the pandemic inflicts invisible wounds that will take longer to heal than any disease

How Companies Are Adjusting To The WFH Culture

Companies are adjusting to the WFH culture

The Native Redefined

Opposition to domicile law unites Jammu with Kashmir

Off With Their Trunks

Russian poplar trees face the axe in Kashmir amid speculation that they can spread coronavirus

DIVIDED STATES IN UNITED FIGHT

Big or small, rich or poor, the provincial constabulary is shouldering India’s campaign in a world war

Different Times, Different Strokes

India’s grounded sportspersons are creatively using their forced leave to lay the grounds for future success

Community Infection

In Assam’s capital Guwahati, some men taunted three nurses from Manipur by calling them “coronavirus”.

BOOSTER SHOT FOR BHILWARA

How the Rajasthan district went from worst-affected to a model for tackling coronavirus

Home, not alone

Work from home comes with its own set of rules

Can India Feed Itself?

The foodpipes are clogged. A famine hides in the countryside and stalks the cities.

Paradise Locked

As it waits out the shutdown, a circle of dangers presses closer on Bollywood

Covid-19 Governance - Hazmat Nizamuddin

One super-spreader speaks of wider policy lapses—now being (hopefully) fixed as government cranks into action

Vote Bank Soup Kitchen

On a Sunday late in March, the West Bengal unit of the BJP received a message from the party’s high command that each karyakarta—party worker—in the state should adopt five families and look after them during the nationwide lockdown to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.

THE NOWHERE PEOPLE

Experts warn that reverse migration will have a debilitating effect on the rural sector

NATIVES RETURN IN THE TIME OF CORONA

The pandemic has almost reached rural India with the lockdown-spurred reverse migration. Villagers and local authorities are rigging up fences—but how long can they hold off?

SLOW DRIVE IN FAST TEST LANE

India has one of the lowest testing rates in the world. Will new, locally made kits change its programme?

Salve on a Splintered Chain

Coronavirus could have blighted harvests, but state intervention has helped