The fact that India was headed towards another COVID-19 surge became quite apparent by the second week of March 2021 as the number of cases rose steadily, as did the number of deaths per million by the end of March. Post-February, the p...
The tragedy around COVID continues relentlessly. Daily numbers have crossed 3.5 lakh infections and nearly 3000 people dead. India now has one in 7 active cases worldwide, contributing to nearly 15% of the disease burden. The bad news i...
41% of our population is below 20 years of age. This makes up for a sizeable chunk of the school-going population in need of education and skills for a robust workforce in the future. Nearly 1.5 millions schools were shut in India for 3...
Those of us who saw our country going through some bizarre moments while fighting COVID-19 last year, could never have expected a repeat of the farce. Readers will remember this time of the year, 12 months ago when people were asked to ...
The interaction between identity, history and community evolves spaces into contested or cordial ones. Nazima Parveen, in her book ‘Contested Homelands: Politics of space and identity’ describes how the perspectives around M...
Amidst the new literature that has emerged on the condition of Muslims in New India, is a recent book titled Born a Muslim. Written for all Indians who care about India and its future, the book takes a journalistic journey across c...
The question that baffles all Indians, and those who hold India in high esteem is the manner in which the state seems to have allowed some crimes to flourish and on the other hand has muzzled the voices of those who have pointed this ou...
India’s economy has been among the fastest growing economies in the world, at least till 2016 and, one of its major contributors has been the agriculture sector. Agriculture remains the largest employer, employing around 150 milli...
S Y Quraishi has been India’s top bureaucrat. A former Chief Election Commissioner, he headed the Union Health Ministry and has written an incisive and well-researched book on the Population myth and why Muslims are being targeted...
On January 30, 2020, India reported its first COVID-19 case – a medical student in Kerala who had been evacuated from Wuhan. Exactly a year later, the country has recorded more than 1.5 lakh deaths and 1.07 crore po...