Bihari turned Kashmiri

Meet Navin Choudhary, the bureaucrat from Bihar who has become J&K’s first non-local domicile After being interviewed by several news outlets and posing for photographs, a pleasant sense of fatigue was visible on the faces of Vaidehi and Deokant Choudhary at their home in Majhaulia village of Hayaghat block in Bihar’s Darbhanga district. They were […]

The clock stops

It’s the end of TikTok life in Bihar. What’s next? In December 2006, Time magazine declared “You” as the person of the year. This was supposed to be a recognition of sorts for the advent of user-generated content on the internet. In the write-up justifying the choice, Lev Grossman, Times’s lead technology writer at the time, said: “This is an […]

The Corona rebels

A growing number of people in the US don’t support wearing masks to contain the pandemic. This view has its takers in India too, though they are not vocal about it Covid-19 has changed the way we live and perhaps, also the future—which will be a ‘new normal’. But there are some who are not […]

Happy new life to us!

After three months of home food, my first dinner experience in a restaurant after Unlock 1.0 was nothing short of surreal When the country went into lockdown on 25 March, everything around the city of Kolkata was shut down. Life as we knew it came to halt, shops and malls across the city were closed […]

Doomsday for diesel?

Exponential increase in price of the fuel coupled with a slowdown in sales of diesel vehicles has put a question mark on the future of diesel vehicles in the country At the time of writing this article, the price of diesel in Delhi stands at Rs 80.53 for a litre. At the same time, the […]

Battling Covid at home

As the number of Coronavirus cases rise in the capital, home quarantine is being advised for people with mild or no symptoms of the virus. Here are a few guidelines for their speedy recovery Delhi has registered the third-highest number of Coronavirus cases in the country and this is putting immense stress on its medical […]

No uproar, no debate

In these extraordinary times, the Modi government has resorted to issuing a number of ordinances to deal with emerging situations. They will only be subjected to legislative scrutiny once the situation normalises On 24 June, the Union Cabinet approved the eleventh ordinance since Parliament was adjourned on 23 March. The government brought a new ordinance […]

Soldiering on, one day at a time

A young medico shares his experience of working in LNJP’s Covid-19 ward, where new skills have to be learnt and new ways of working devised amid the world’s worst public health crisis in a century In 2018, I came to Delhi to pursue my specialisation in radiology from Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital. This […]