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By Thomas Isaac |
It was about a week back that Kerala had the dubious distinction of having the highest number of patients in the country with 137 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection.…
By Pavitra Mohan |
A simple document, some facts and good referencing to separate myth from reality in the time of COVID-19
By Ajit Ranade |
Despite bitter political bickering, the United States passed its highest ever relief package to support the economy. It is valued at 2.2 trillion dollars, and another…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |

In times like never before, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has acted like never before.

By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC has done a good job in presenting an analysis of the situation arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic in a very clear and candid manner. It has shown its firm…
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The idea that washing hands is an important step in fighting disease may seem common sense now but it didn’t come as easy as that.

By Jagdish Rattanani, Pavitra Mohan |

The fight against COVID19 has been likened to fighting a war with an insidious, dangerous but invisible enemy.

By Jagdish Rattanani |

The complete lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fight the coronavirus threat has generally been welcomed.

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By Rajiv Khandelwal and Divya Varma 

By T Jacob John |
The pandemic is spreading like wildfire. What started surreptitiously sometime in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, has engulfed 172 countries and regions by March 25, 2020.…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
Corona, speculative mischief suggests, must be of divine provenance. She has the intelligence to slumber, to awaken, to migrate, to disappear, to influence, to provoke,…
By T Jacob John |

The government took charge of the fight against Covid-19 right from the beginning — the first week of February. The first port of virus entry happened to be Kerala.…

By Jagdish Rattanani |

Of Bharat bandhs, the days it was a form of potent protest, it used to be claimed in officialdom that they passed off peacefully.

By Lekha Rattanani |
The decision of the Maharashtra government announced by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray earlier this week to stamp all those “home-quarantined” for exposure to the…
By Nawshir Mirza |
For a society that claims several thousand years of civilisation, why are our cities so ugly? When we travel overseas, to any country, rich or poor, the ugliness of our…