36 documents, yet no compensation 

Number of deaths from Covid are mounting amongst healthcare workers, yet when it comes to the question of compensation for their families, the process is slow and tedious Akhil Kumar pauses mid sentences, describing his mother Ambika’s last 28 days, struggling and then succumbing to Covid-19. Ambika, a nurse in Delhi’s Kalra Hospital, in Kirti […]

Children—the most vulnerable—need protection

Children, it is feared, will be the target of the third wave of Covid. Experts allay fears—no evidence to support this theory. Data presents a different picture    The son of a senior district official in Ghaziabad just recovered from covid-19. “Ramesh (name changed) is brave. But tired, lacking enthusiasm, this will continue for some time. […]

Delhi hospital reports ‘first-ever’ white fungus case causing severe damage to entire intestine

Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has come across a first-of-its-kind case of white fungus which causes multiple perforations throughout the intestine in a COVID-19 patient, doctors said on Thursday. White fungus (Candida) causing multifocal perforations in the food pipe, small bowel and large bowel in COVID-19 infection has not been reported in literature to […]

Born of lockdown

A collaborative exhibition titled Come Away put together by GallerySke, Pichvai Tradition & Beyond and PHOTOINK is on view online The exhibition features two series – Shared Solitude and The Geography Is All Wrong.  Artist Anita Khemka and Imran Kokiloo’s ‘Shared Solitude’ was born out of a literal and forced—isolation as a result of a […]

For the crumbling health infrastructure, mobile hospitals may be a solution 

An Indian entrepreneur, Ranjit Grewal, with the help of a Singaporean crypto pioneer, is retrofitting shipping containers into well-equipped hospitals—has great potential to revamp public health infrastructure Lately, the Modi government has faced criticism from around the world for mismanaging the second wave of Covid-19 that left people scrambling for medical care, leading to the […]

From akhara to extorsion, Sushil’s arrest has shamed the wrestling world

On World Wrestling Day, two time Olympic Game’s medallist Shushil Kumar was arrested and sent to six-day police custody in connection with the murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankar It was sometime in 2019, much before the Covid-19 lockdown in India, that I was taken to the basement parking of Chhatrasal Stadium by Sushil Kumar ‘Pehelwan’ […]

Events of the week

Round table What: Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Documentary, Features, Academy Awards 1988; and Lillian Gish Award for Excellence in Documentary, Los Angeles Women in Film Festival 1987 – The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table is being screened by India International Centre. Throughout the “Roaring ’20s,” a […]

Vaccination halted at all 400 sites for 18-44 age group in Delhi: Sisodia

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said Pfizer and Moderna have refused to sell coronavirus vaccines directly to the national capital and have said that they will only talk to the Centre. In an online briefing, Sisodia said all the 400 vaccination sites for the 18-44 age group have been closed in Delhi […]