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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

Losing By An Own Goal

To hound out the Gastlers, who use football and education to empower girls in remotest Jharkhand, is a crying shame

Finally, The Old Fall Guy

The Nizamuddin ‘hot spot’ allows trolls to target Muslims for spreading the virus

DIY Cure? Don't Do It

Rumours of panaceas for COVID-19 abound. But some might do more harm than good.

The Banks Are Alright. Sort Of

Debacles like Yes Bank reveal its weak spots, but the system is neither broke nor broken. And it may get better.

ECovid-19 Lockdown: The Economy And The Virus

Life. It's life itself that is affected, profoundly so and almost at a genetic level. And that means at every other extended level of human experience. Emotional and psychological, to begin with, and from there to what we go out about doing with our daily lives. Earning our bread, trying to survive - or thrive.

From Valentine To Quarantine

Indian bourses tanked over 37% in 25 sessions amidst sharp jump in trading volume and turnover

Heartland Heartburn

Caught between aspirations of loyalists and new entrants, Shivraj Chouhan will have to walk the tightrope as he assumes charge as MP chief minister

Our Violating Society

A screed of horrific rapes; a litany of justice miscarried. More than the closure offered by executions, society needs an overhaul.

A Case in Point

Judicial independence needs a fresh look in the context of jurisprudence of checks and balances.

Viral Shots - Life In The Time Of Coronavirus

Life in the time of coronavirus, as seen by our photographer Tribhuvan Tiwari

Coronavirus - Goliath The Germ

Imagine the whole of humanity - indoors. Instead, butterflies fluttering across wide open roads in an Indian metropolis, blue skies over China, clear water and swarms of fish and swans back in Venice's canals! The new global mantra - stay at home - is having quite an unintended consequence. The world is seeing its arteries declogged after a long, long time, like a smoker who has just quit. But utopia will have to wait. The sense right now is of an impending apocalypse. It's sheer panic, and not love, that was making the world go round - or rather, stay still - on the Ides of March 2020. From Eiffel Tower to the Taj Mahal, from Euro2020 to the IPL, there was just one buzzphrase: 'flatten the curve'. The bio-tsunami breaking over our globalised landscape has emptied malls and pubs, hacked down the population density at bustling tech parks and divided humanity between conscientious self - quarantiners, manic hypochondriacs, and plain and simple maniacs who run away from isolation wards.

Stock Market Crash - What Next?

As the market bleeds, options are limited for the spooked investor

Top Gun Pandian

CM Naveen Patnaik’s most trusted aide calls the shots

Diary

“We are Indians, we can’t help ourselves,”

The Sleep Is Showing, Your Honour

Country’s apex judiciary is caught napping as the executive goes about curtailing civil liberties of dissenters and opponents

States Cry Halt

With 12 states opposing a proposed exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR), this could be the first time India’s decennial census exercise may face some disruption.

CHANGING GEARS

EV’s may be the flavour of the month, but, as the cover of this section suggests, the SUV onslaught is showing no signs of abating whatsoever.