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DISTANT DIPLOMACY

Namaste is the flavour of the season, especially in Delhi’s diplomatic circles. The reason: Covid-19. Handshakes are avoided and diplomatic missions have issued guidelines to employees to avoid cheek kissing and to stay at home in case of a flu. At the International Womens’ Day celebration at the Dutch embassy, the deputy chief of mission, Anneke Adema, had the namaste down pat— each guest was greeted with one. Just for good measure, the embassy gave gifts to the attendees tiny wooden clogs and a small bottle of sanitiser.

At least a year until a vaccine is ready, but no guarantee

Dr Tom Frieden is former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. He is currently president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global nonprofit working on preventing epidemics and cardiovascular diseases. On March 10, he wrote about the worst case scenario in Covid-19—it could kill up to 10 lakh people in the US. In an exclusive interview to THE WEEK, Frieden discussed how little experts know about the virus, the uncertainty of drug treatments and vaccines and how vulnerable the world is to such epidemics.

Like Nipah, Coronavirus, Too, Has Taught Us Lessons

January 30, 2.30am. It was an odd hour for a media briefing. But, only a few hours earlier, Kerala had confirmed the first-ever case of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in India. After a two-hour-long meeting of the rapid response team, Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja told the media that the state was all set to tackle the disease that had caught the world unawares.

State of apathy

With promises made to Nirbhaya’s family unkept, her ancestral village lies neglected

Rebel prince

Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh and the high command are equally responsible for Scindia’s exit

Tale of two heads

Two Lingayat mutts set the stage for a social revolution by naming a Muslim man and an OBC woman as pontiffs

Leadership vacuum, not crisis

Democratically electing a full-time party president could help change public perception of the Congress

Taking Gwalior

How a former banker and a royal relative persuaded Jyotiraditya Scindia to jump ship

Eat, pray, dance

Author Elizabeth Gilbert on how to love and groove in these uncertain times

EXIT WOUND

MORE THAN THE POWER TUSSLE IN MADHYA PRADESH, IT WAS THE BREAKDOWN OF TRUST BETWEEN HIM AND RAHUL GANDHI THAT LED TO JYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA’S EXIT. WITH THE OLD GUARD STILL CALLING THE SHOTS AND RAHUL BEING “UNRESPONSIVE”, A FEW MORE CONGRESS LEADERS MIGHT FOLLOW IN SCINDIA’S FOOTSTEPS.

Distilliing heritage

Meet the Goa-based entrepreneur who is reimagining everything from tequila to mahua

Caught in a loop

A mother awaits justice for her gang-raped daughter; two others pray for relief for their convicted sons... the prolonged wait of three families bound by a heinous crime.

Rebalancing act

How to strategise your debt portfolio in the current economic scenario

Coronavirus - The Economic Impact

The economic impact of the coronavirus on India is likely to be restricted to the current financial year

Wary peace

The US-Taliban truce poses strategic and diplomatic challenges for India

UNCHARTED TERRITORY

Angrezi Medium is quite a departure from Homi Adajania’s previous films. And, that is what lured him to make it, he says

Rajnath Singh- DEFENCE MINISTER

Pakistan knows what will happen if it tries another Pulwama

Capital wounds

How communal fissures, intelligence lapses and police incompetence stoked the Delhi fire

My father said no to Bapu

A son writes about an adamant dairy specialist, the only Christian among the Dandi marchers

ALL TO ARMS

Though there has been relative calm in the subcontinent post-Balakot, intelligence reports accessed by THE WEEK reveal how major terrorist groups are building a second rung of leadership to lead operations, and how dormant groups in Kashmir are being revived to plan attacks on India

ASCEND 2020

A platform for investors

Adapt or perish

Lessons from Team India’s meek surrender to the Black Caps

A house divided

Unease and impatience intensify in the Congress as leadership crisis remains unresolved

Floundering hunters

After the fall of the Third Reich, the US recruited hundreds of Germany’s finest and brightest—some of whom were tied to war crimes and even the Holocaust—to stimulate its scientific and technical advancement.

RIOTS AND WRONGS

THE VIOLENCE THAT CLAIMED MORE THAN TWO DOZEN LIVES IN THE CAPITAL CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO SEVERAL SLIPPAGES, INCLUDING SLOW RESPONSE FROM POLITICAL LEADERS, NO CURB ON PROVOCATIVE SPEECHES AND A LARGELY INEFFECTUAL DELHI POLICE

We are aiming to launch the Sonet this year

WHEN KIA MOTORS entered the Indian market last July with the Seltos sports utility vehicle, everyone thought the timing could not have been worse.

Modi's Trump(et)

The US president’s visit was a gush fest of commitments and declarations, but in terms of deliverables, nothing much came out of it

HIT AND RUN

The Balakot strike was a triumph of planning and execution, and it redefined strategic equations in the subcontinent

Changing colours

Trump’s visit will benefit the Indian-American community indirectly. But will they vote for him?

Trump Comes To Town

A cultural extravaganza awaits Donald Trump as South Block hopes the hype will rub off on the substance of the Indo-US relationship