No shoppers, no jobs

Sarojini Nagar workers’ plight shows how Covid has wrecked Delhi’s popular flea market The very day prime minister Narendra Modi announced the coronavirus lockdown in March, Ankit Sahu, 22, was laid off. Ankit worked as a salesman in a shop selling women’s clothes in Sarojini Nagar, one of Delhi’s most popular flea markets. He got […]

Reincarnation of the ‘Iron Lady’?

Priyanka Gandhi is trying to portray herself as the true successor of the ‘Iron Lady’ of India — Indira Gandhi. Is it enough to harp about the past to secure a better future for the Congress party? India’s grand old party is in trouble. The debacle in the general elections, followed by the loss of […]

Silence at Saheen Bagh

Is the storied movement against the citizenship law on pause or has the Coronavirus crisis ended it?  Last December, a group of Muslim women began occupying a patch of street at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, registering their protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. The sit-in protest made national headlines […]

Devaluation of education

Can Indian universities ask students to take exams when they have barely taught them? When the Coronavirus pandemic hit India, educational institutions were among the first public spaces to be closed to contain the spread of the virus. While exams for first and second year college students were cancelled, the question of conducting final year […]

The education factor

Most Nepalese students are well adjusted in India and will keep coming, the bigger deterrent for female students being ragging. People to people contact still endures Richa Karki called India ‘home’ for most of her life. She first arrived in India’s Kalimpong from Nepal’s Kathmandu to join school in the 1st grade. “I spent so […]

Event of the Week

Israel connect  What: Featuring the works of two leading contemporary artists from Israel, Dani Karavan and Atar Geva, an online exhibition brings together their work in a show titled ‘Plain Abstract’. They met at Givat Haviva (non-profit education centre founded in 1949) in its home for art, the GH Art Gallery. Growing into and out […]

One hell of a ride!

Flying from Delhi to Kolkata amid the pandemic was a comedy of errors or an unfolding tragedy — depending on how you look at it. The happy part is that I did not get contaminated ‘Avoid crowded places.’ The rules were loud and clear – in every news channel, in every precautionary advertisement, and in […]

Old and alone

Senior citizens, who normally have a good support system in the villages, find them isolated during illness, unable to enjoy the comforts of family life In June, when Shanti, 72, fell ill, her greatest fear that nobody would visit her was coming true. Except her family, no outsider was visiting her. She felt that everyone […]