YouTube has become the Establishment and TikTok the upstart that is being denigrated for giving play to content created by people who are less sophisticated and urbane. The fight is getting nasty  The pandemic has thrown India, like the rest of humanity, into a great crisis. It is an unprecedented challenge not only for the […]

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The Coronavirus brought about a dip in pollution levels in the country. The lockdown offers an opportunity to find out the options among greener fuels and make a switch With Lockdown 4.0 came multiple relaxations as central and state governments moved to revive the economy. And with these relaxations, unfortunately, came a rapid deterioration of […]

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​Indians in Spain are desperate to get home.  On 31 May, the first evacuation flight from Madrid to Delhi will bring some of them home — if they want to spend a wad of cash There’s a clear case that Spain didn’t get the kind of attention from the Indian authorities like other European countries […]

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From the first patient to 100 cases a day: Pune has become one of India’s first coronavirus hotspots, an audit of the cases in the city, its response, and what went wrong Rubal Agrawal, Pune’s additional municipal commissioner, remembers where she was when she received the news of Pune’s first coronavirus case. It was the […]

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In Delhi’s red light area sex workers on GB Road are surviving on meagre savings and food supplied intermittently by NGOs. The government hasn’t provided any help, they say Sarita is worried. She has meagre savings and an 11-month-old daughter to care for, but she may not find work even after the coronavirus lockdown is […]

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Far from looking after the interests of their vast  workforce, states like UP and Gujarat seem to be exploiting their desperation by doing away with their right to decent, regular employment  Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to suspend all labour laws, except three, for three years has come as a shocker. The stated intent is to […]

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Before jumping to his death from his high-rise apartment, Mohit (name changed) sent a text message to his parents and three of his friends telling them he loved them. One of his friends, whose balcony is adjacent to Mohit’s family’s, received one of the messages. He rushed to the balcony to tell his friend not […]

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The lives and livelihood of the sex workers of Sonagachi have come to a standstill — from rents that have not been waived off to difficulting in accessing food for themselves and their families Abeda Bibi’s aged parents live in a small village in Nadia, 127 km from their daughter’s workplace in the heart of […]

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