Monday, December 30, 2024
eco-friendly cremation
  The dance of death that India witnessed during the disastrous covid-19 surge in April-May was quite traumatic with people scrambling for hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, and medicine to save their loved ones. The ordeal...
When chips were down, courts rise to redeem lost glory, instil faith in democracy
As the Covid19 struck India hard with vengeance in its second wave we were witness to a phenomenon where democracy was put to test with many institutions failing in their calling. At a time when...
Interfaith bonhomie with Covid playing cupid in its own way
  At a time when social distancing to ward off the deadly coronavirus has become a norm, the two major religious groups in the country, Hindu and Muslim, have a reason to come closer to each....
Assembly polls punch holes in BJP citadel
  Elections in four states and a Union territory at a time when the people in the country were dying in hundreds due to the second wave of corona pandemic not only was reflected the arrogance...
things move in Bihar only when high court intervenes
  Like the rest of the country the healthcare scenario in Bihar in the wake of coronavirus outbreak is grim. If on the one hand the unprecedented surge in the epidemic is taking a heavy toll...
Covid surge no deterrent, sectarian prejudices bear striking resemblance to Germany of 1930
  Last year, when coronavirus was at its peak, a corona profile was doing the rounds on social media. “The pandemic was born in China, brought up in Italy, and embraced Islam when it landed in...
Death trail reaches rural India;
  Kin shouting in disgust for the treatment of their loved ones, or wailing inconsolably over the dead outside hospitals, craving for oxygen cylinders, ventilators and hospital beds from all directions and dead bodies piling up...
Grim prospects for education
If we have any more trouble in store for us post-pandemic we never know. But while the world is still grappling with the herculean challenges in the second year into the covid-19 epidemic amidst discovery...
Polls precipitated Covid surge: Citizens made to pay for state indiscretion
  When the Madras High Court suggested that election officials could be booked under murder charges for not taking enough precautions against coronavirus during the just concluded Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had...
Kumbh, polls still ticking, tide over the crisis with life-first approach
  With the last shahisnan (royal dip) on April 27 the biggest religious congregation Kumbh Mela 2021 draws to a close on April 30 at Haridwar amidst second wave of Coronavirus pandemic sweeping the length and...