With the lockdown and the need for social distancing, apps like Houseparty are enabling people to continue with their Saturday night plans  Lockdown has forced the entire world to practice social distancing and in some areas has even led to lockdowns. Human civilisation that relies on physical contact then has been left with no option […]

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Life has been quite pleasant in the multi-storey housing complex in Noida’s Paras Tierea, despite being completely sealed for two days after a couple of Coronavirus cases were found   People find ways to keep themselves busy even when there’s not much to do. I have been in my house alone for a week now and […]

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While the nation continues to be under lockdown, pollution is on the decline and wildlife is coming on to the streets When Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown a week ago, it was designed to stop the imminent spread of the novel Coronavirus. But grinding this country of 1.3 billion people to a […]

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If all goes to plan, from Friday, 3 April, a robot will go into an isolation facility housing patients of Covid-19 to administer food and medication– a step towards providing care without putting medical staff at risk. This revolutionary move in medical care during this pandemic comes — not surprisingly — from Kerala Asimov Robotics, […]

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Amid the nation-wide lockdown, senior citizens living alone are finding it hard to manage their day-to-day activities When the Prime Minister announced a nation-wide lockdown on 22 March to keep Covid-19 from spreading, people were given only four hours time to stock up for the next 21 days. This left many senior citizens in a […]

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A large chunk of India’s youth spend their most productive years preparing for competitive exams, facing repeated failure and frustration. After the pandemic, layoffs in the private sector will only deepen this syndrome 27- years- old, Anand Kumar loiya was happy with his job in a private company in Pune until his girlfriend told him […]

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With entire countries under lockdown, Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ provides an insight into human emotions and reactions to turmoil  In January 1941, 28-year old Albert Camus, an Algerian French philosopher and Nobel laureate, started writing about a deadly epidemic transmitted to humans through rats resulting in the death of almost half of the population of […]

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Ajai Raj Sharma has dealt with some high profile cases in his illustrious career. He writes about it with flair in his recently published memoir  Ajai Raj Sharma, 76, will go down in history as one of the better commissioners to have led Delhi Police. No surprise that he was actively considered for the post […]

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