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With the virus prowling like a vengeful cop searching for mask-less rioters, politicians are quarantined in the blue world of Twitterhetoric.
17 hours ago
The mask is both protection and prevarication—to hide the identity of a spy, a thief, a murderer or an illicit lover. Shamans use it to impersonate god.
05 Jul 2020
Exploitation of the helpless is a recurrent theme in cinema.
21 Jun 2020
Three centuries later, all the king’s men—wise, clever and stupid—are trying to figure out the nature of the viral beast.
14 Jun 2020
All policy is a reflection of national culture. Indians as a lot are a self-satisfied variety, smug in their cultural superiority over other countries but easy to take offence.
31 May 2020
The duty of governance is to oversee the great apparatus of democracy, not to monitor the participants.
17 May 2020
Journeys have banal connotations while an odyssey is invariably a journey of vast proportions, loaded with hope, tragedy and homecoming.
10 May 2020
Politics is the art of meeting great expectations by creating and protecting institutions.
26 Apr 2020
It’s a sad lockdown for our embattled liberal classes.
19 Apr 2020
ICMR churlishly rejected WHO’s insistence on testing ‘unwarranted’ because there was no community transmission in India.
12 Apr 2020
The character of this century will be marked not by how we inhabit this new world, but by how it inhabits us
29 Mar 2020
The white man is not used to death by germ while dirty latrines in Third World quarantine wards are normal.
22 Mar 2020
The leader is on a roll, pumped up with the vitamin of adoration, totally in command of his audience and himself.
01 Mar 2020
Post 9/11, 149 American women soldiers have been killed by suicide bombers, IEDs, helo crashes and bullets.
23 Feb 2020
Gandhi could convert an obstinate sulk into a lofty principle: after the Chauri Chaura incident, he suspended the civil disobedience movement.
09 Feb 2020
COVID-19: Delhi puts plans to use stadiums as COVID-19 facilities on hold
Abhishek Bachchan's 'Breathe' co-star Amit Sadh to get COVID-19 test done
Delhi records 40 per cent less rainfall; 'good' rain not likely for another week
Elephant deaths in Chhattisgarh: Traces of heavy metal found in viscera
Leaving ICF surprised, international companies stay away from Vande Bharat express tender
Saw video of Amitabh Bachchan thanking Nanavati Medics? Fact check, that's months old
