Hope on the horizon

Plasma therapy trials are showing encouraging results in Delhi’s designated hospitals, though there is difficulty getting donations from cured patients and the treatment is not always successful In April, over 100 employees of the Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital in Delhi tested Covid-19 positive. One of them is Jitendra Verma, a member of the nursing […]

Date with self

A few young people used the lockdown as an extended period of reflection and introspection followed by personal makeovers The lockdown lasting nearly three months has been a tumultuous time for many. However, there were some who used this forced break from hectic lifes to introspect, improve, lose weight, pursue old hobbies and hone latent […]

Different strokes

With lockdown norms relaxed, art galleries across the city are re-opening, but on a cautious note with limited access   With the easing of the lockdown, the entire city is slowly attempting to get back to its usual form. As offices, malls and markets re-open for business, art galleries have also opened their doors but things […]

A killer thought

Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide took me back to the days where I too slipped into depression and even thought of ending my life at several points of time On Sunday, just as I finished lunch and grabbed my phone, a number of messages flashed on my phone screen. All of them had just one line […]

Jumbo crisis

Social media outrage over the death of a pregnant elephant cannot translate into better conservation unless stringent measures are taken to ensure the protection of natural habitat The recent death of a pregnant elephant after eating a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers shocked the nation. This issue received global attention on social media, with people from […]

Time to remember Gandhi

As farmers meet our most basic needs and untouchability reigns supreme, we are getting adequate time to reflect on what we have done to Nature. All of which were crucial factors in the worldview father of the nation We Indians, especially the educated and influential, seem to have lost our values as we speed our […]

Fourth estate vs police

In the US, the authorities feel compelled to investigate and even apologise for an assault on mediapersons. Here, such complaints go nowhere After a black man named George Floyd, 46, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, thousands of Americans poured into the streets to protest against racial injustice. The […]

Remote control

FICCI and a Hindi news channel have objected to new draft guidelines that empower the union home ministry to revoke a channel’s security clearance On April 30 this year, during the third phase of the nationwide lockdown, the information and broadcasting ministry released new draft guidelines for uplinking and downlinking TV channels. In an attached […]