Adverse entry

After a reading of Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge’ by the students during a protest, a faculty member complained to the director for its ‘objectionable’ content THE COMMITTEE set up by IIT Kanpur’s director said it was “unfortunate” that the university’s students recited the poem Hum Dekhenge by Faiz Ahmed Faiz during a December protest against the […]

SAARC always a priority

New Delhi has gravitated towards other regional groupings in recent years, but it has always used SAARC to achieve specific aims On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a video conference with leaders of the countries comprising the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation for sharing strategies as well as exploring possibilities of a regional […]

Flyers’ 8-hour ordeal

Patriot speaks to few of the 500 passengers from Paris and Frankfurt who were detained at the airport for over eight hours for Coronavirus screening ON MARCH 15, Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport didn’t look as busy as the usual days. There was not much of a crowd, barring one spot at the […]

No arrivals, only cancellations

The tourism industry is hurting — not just travel agencies but also guides, vendors and rickshaw pullers whose daily earnings have dried up SUSHEEL VERMA is operations manager at Janta Travels, a travel agency which has been around since 1977. He says the only time the company witnessed a downturn in business was after the […]

Irrational responses

As the Coronavirus fear grips the country, the common man has become paranoid, putting faith in superstitions and indulging in xenophobia ON MARCH 17, the third case of Covid-19 was found in the NCR suburb of Noida. A man, 35, was found to have contracted coronavirus, after he came back a few days ago from […]

Debunking myths going viral

A lot of misconceptions have been doing the rounds behind the Coronavirus. Here is what the doctors advise WITH A total 166 confirmed cases in India, the highly communicable Coronavirus has the government and medical facilities across the world working towards its containment, as such precautions are mandated and should be followed to ensure fallout […]

Not up to the mark

GTB Hospital seems to have been ill-equipped to cope with the rush of patients from the nearby riot-hit area of North East Delhi. Families are alleging negligence and failure to lodge medico-legal cases THAN SINGH, a 50-year-old daily wage worker, was injured on the first day of the gruesome riot that took place at various […]

Students from Northeast attacked near DU

‘They threw balloons at us, aiming at our private parts. They saw I had Mongoloid features after I took off my pollution mask and screamed, ‘Aye, coronavirus!’ ON MARCH 3, two students from the Northeast were attacked by six men in Kamla Nagar, near Delhi University’s North Campus. The men were on motorbikes and threw […]