Counter Covid-19 with awareness

With three confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Kerala, the need for informed precautions has become all the more important IT STARTS with the common cold, a seemingly harmless affliction. Yet it has caused a health crisis around the world. Covid-19, the latest strain of Coronavirus, spreading its infection across the globe, stemmed from Wuhan, […]

Chug it!

Delhi’s Connaught Clubhouse, which offers in-house brewed beer, is a perfect place to look forward to this summer SUMMER IS around the corner and the surest way to beat the blues is with a pint of chilled beer. And we found a place that makes its own, which only makes things sweeter. Connaught Clubhouse located […]

‘Village of widows’

The state government kicked out over 100 Sahariya families from Madhav National Park 20 years ago. And then broke almost every promise made to them “BUYING VEGETABLES is a luxury for us. I do my best to ensure my children have a normal meal at least once a week. Rest of the days we eat […]

Delhi in a traffic jam

Shaheen Bagh protesters are being demonised but delays by authorities are responsible for most bottlenecks SHAHEEN BAGH hit the headlines for blocking one major road that links Noida with Delhi. But the bottlenecks which have been holding traffic for hours do not find any space in the news. There are various spots in Delhi where […]

Song sung true

The campaign songs put out by the three parties in the Delhi fray clearly enunciated what they stood for. AAP’s cheeriness clearly trumped BJP’s doomsday scenario As the metro stopped and opened its doors at designated stops, the unmistakable beats of AAPs campaign song for Assembly elections 2020 seemed to be heard every other day. Sometimes […]

So far so good — but no more freebies

Schemes like waiving farm loans count as freebies too WE LIVE in the age of spin. Given this, it is hardly surprising that the Aam Aadmi Party’s victory in the Delhi state election has been spun into a victory of freebies. Freebies work, but Arvind Kejriwal wasn’t the first person to figure this out. The […]

AAP WON, BUT HATE SEEPED THROUGH

DELHI VOTERS HAD DIVERSE REASONS FOR VOTING FOR AAP. WHILE MANY DID SO AS AN ANTI-BJP VOTE, BECAUSE OF ITS VITRIOLIC CAMPAIGN, THIS ALSO GOT THE PARTY SOME SUPPORT “WHAT WILL happen to us Hindus when Muslims take over?” These words, uttered by a voter from Rohtas Nagar, one of the eight constituencies which voted […]

How sanity trumped hate

Could it be that the alternative narrative put out through social media and digital news websites actually found purchase? IN MY last column, I asserted that Delhi was not India. After the Aam Aadmi Party’s spectacular victory in the elections, one wishes it was. And perhaps it will be. Who knows? But this is not […]