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 […]

Covid sheroes 

Women-led governments have done much better in the trying times of the pandemic, displaying decisive leadership and commanding trust of the nation “I did a little dance,” said Jacinda Ardern, 39-year-old Prime Minister of New Zealand when she was informed that no new cases were reported, nor are there any active cases of Covid-19 in […]

DNA of an Orwellian state

Joining the dots of the trial of CAA protestors and two Bills in Parliament, a disturbing picture emerges of the ability of the government to invade the privacy of individuals charges with various crimes The visuals that emerged on 15 December last year were disturbing. The government had just a few days before successfully passed […]

Allow surveillance or else…

Like the Chinese app Zoom which allows breach of data security, the Aarogya Setu app is causing concern among internet privacy watchdogs At first, it seemed as if the Zoom app, which boasted of 300 million daily users, was a good way to keep in touch for large swathes of the world’s population under lockdown. […]

Herd immunity is not a humane option

Letting the virus roam freely would lead to a large number of fatalities. Only a vaccine, whenever it becomes available, can achieve the same purpose in a morally acceptable manner Sweden tried it and failed miserably. Britain almost considered it before opting for a lockdown instead. And as we speak, the idea continues to divide […]

Online exams? Really?

Students are already suffering due to sudden displacement,  internet unreliability and other piquant situations. DU as an institution is oblivious to their problems In the beginning of March, I was at home in Lucknow for the mid-semester break when it was announced that educational institutions in Delhi will be closed until March 31 to contain […]