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Paradise Locked
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Paradise Locked

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

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6 mins  |
April 13, 2020
Covid-19 Governance - Hazmat Nizamuddin
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Covid-19 Governance - Hazmat Nizamuddin

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

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8 mins  |
April 13, 2020
Vote Bank Soup Kitchen
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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.

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April 13, 2020
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THE NOWHERE PEOPLE

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

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April 13, 2020
NATIVES RETURN IN THE TIME OF CORONA
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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?

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April 13, 2020
SLOW DRIVE IN FAST TEST LANE
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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?

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April 13, 2020
Salve on a Splintered Chain
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Salve on a Splintered Chain

Coronavirus could have blighted harvests, but state intervention has helped

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April 13, 2020
Losing By An Own Goal
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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

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April 13, 2020
Finally, The Old Fall Guy
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Finally, The Old Fall Guy

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

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April 13, 2020
DIY Cure? Don't Do It
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DIY Cure? Don't Do It

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

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April 07, 2020
The Banks Are Alright. Sort Of
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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.

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April 07, 2020
ECovid-19 Lockdown: The Economy And The Virus
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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.

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April 07, 2020
From Valentine To Quarantine
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From Valentine To Quarantine

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

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April 07, 2020
Heartland Heartburn
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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

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April 07, 2020
Our Violating Society
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Our Violating Society

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

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6 mins  |
April 07, 2020
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A Case in Point

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

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6 mins  |
April 07, 2020
Viral Shots - Life In The Time Of Coronavirus
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Viral Shots - Life In The Time Of Coronavirus

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

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March 30, 2020
Coronavirus - Goliath The Germ
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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.

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March 30, 2020
Stock Market Crash - What Next?
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Stock Market Crash - What Next?

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

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March 30, 2020
Top Gun Pandian
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Top Gun Pandian

CM Naveen Patnaik’s most trusted aide calls the shots

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March 30, 2020
Diary
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Diary

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

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March 30, 2020
The Sleep Is Showing, Your Honour
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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

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March 30, 2020
States Cry Halt
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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.

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March 30, 2020
CHANGING GEARS
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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.

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March 30, 2020
SGT UNIVERSITY - Crossing bridges of success over the years
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SGT UNIVERSITY - Crossing bridges of success over the years

SGT University, Gurugram, considered one of the best private Universities in North India is spread over 70 acres of land and is surrounded by a serene lush green environment. Situated at Chandu Budhera on the outskirts of Gurugram, it is less than five kilometres from the Delhi border at Daurala.

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March 30, 2020
Can a central law be a national law with so many states against it?
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Can a central law be a national law with so many states against it?

A septuagenarian, Captain Amarinder Singh helms one of the most stable Congress-led ­state ­governments today. Unlike other states where internecine power struggles perennially undermine or threaten ­incumbent chief ministers, Singh administers his state without much opposition. He has his share of detractors, but none have succeeded in ­measuring up to the CM who once served in the Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army. Having completed three years of his current term as CM, Singh is now firmly ­focused on the ­remaining two. He spoke to editor-in-chief Ruben Banerjee about the challenges that confront him and the Congress.

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March 30, 2020
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Tech-Tonic Shift In Times Of Corona

China’s massive technology network is joining forces with the state machinery in combating a killer epidemic that has no known cure, or vaccine

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March 16, 2020
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Curse Of The Corona

Disaster movies sometimes seem not so far-fetched after all. We have not been short of judgement day prophecies of various hues in recent times. But this can be the scariest morality tale of them all: a mystery virus threatening humankind. The reality is more banal in its causative chain, but fear of the unknown is very much its part --- and justly so. As the novel coronavirus explodes like clusterbombs across the plane — over 80 countries have been hit, with nearly one lakh infected -- where does India stand? It's a 'known unknown'. We only know that we do not know.

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9 mins  |
March 16, 2020
‘I'm not in the race for Bihar CM, nor will I lead any electoral front'
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‘I'm not in the race for Bihar CM, nor will I lead any electoral front'

The AAP government’s recent nod to Delhi Police to go ahead with the prosecution of Kanhaiya Kumar in a 2016 sedition case has triggered a debate, bringing the youth leader back into the spotlight. The decision came only a day after the 33-year-old former president of the JNU students’ union addressed a big rally in Patna as part of his statewide campaign against CAA-NRC-NPR in poll-bound Bihar. In an exclusive interview with Giridhar Jha, Kanhaiya talks about the sedition case, his defeat from Begusarai in last year’s general elections, and whether he is ready to head an alternative front ahead of the next assembly polls in his home state. Excerpts:

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March 23, 2020
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WHISPERS ON WHITE NIGHTS

The irruption of visiting sportsmen in Gulmarg is but a brief interlude. Since last August, it has lain in snowy silence, to which it is fated to return.

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March 23, 2020