By Monica Yadav
Under the current conditions of a year into the pandemic and more infectious mutants of COVID-19 viruses causing another surge of infections and deaths, it feels as though we need to go back to the discussion of dignity of the living, the dying and the dead.
By Anuja Sarda
Some cultural biases and judgments shape the hiring process. This structure is basically designed to fail international students like me who are competing with other scholars who have the cultural capital.
By Mithilesh Kumar
It can even be said that it is only when these belligerents – pathogens and governments – engage in a “war” that pandemics are created.
By Sriti Ganguly
A bird in a bowing posture at sunset amused me and made me wonder whether it was in a contemplative mode or merely looking down at its feet to check if it is time for a pedicure.
By Gracy Samjetsabam
They send out a message that the future may be vague but man is determined to stay positive, adapt and adopt, which would bear fruit only if we respond and act in the spirit of “metanoia” and “togetherness”.
By Anjali V Raj
The pandemic life has become the new ordinary. I wonder if we would miss our life of social distancing and masks whence this is over.
By Swagata Ghosh
So far my usual reactions before this crisis have been to shake hands, to give a pat on one’s back, to tap one’s cheek, to ruffle one’s hair, to hold hands, to exchange hugs and the like, depending on the person I’m meeting or interacting with.
By Anindita Chakrabarty
It may become pertinent to ask if the global world order would unlearn, and move away from a neo-liberal regime that promotes privatisation to a more socialist one that emphasises wealth equality.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
I stand with all caregivers, family members, professional caregivers, all those who try to make things work a little, as we try to deal with increased stress in these times. We negotiate this stress by taking one small step at a time to make life pleasant and comfortable for our loved ones with dementia.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
Make it a point to reach out to the near and dear ones and share the warmth of memories, making the current social turnaround one of courage and goodwill. It is time to be united.
By Amrita Sharma
This article attempts to present the possibilities of interpreting some of the most famous couplets by Ghalib in the present socio-cultural context through the lens of everyday life.
By Javid Majeed
As the pandemic continues, it is important to support children and adolescents facing bereavement and issues related to parental unemployment or loss of household income.
By Madhu Singh
Whereas The Plague became a bestseller in Corona crisis across the globe with publishers rushing reprints, not much is known about Sartre’s Typhus French playscript which was published in 2007 having vanished from sight for almost sixty years.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The lockdown has put brakes to much of all the hair grooming that many of us are used to. A dear friend who called up this morning announced that she had decided not to colour her hair anymore.
By Mosarrap H Khan
Kirti Sengupta, Anu Majumdar and Dustin Pickering’s Hibiscus: Poems that heal and empower encapsulates the role and duty of a poet in times of pandemic in much the same way Pushkin imagined doing it: by empowering us to think beyond death.
By Rashi Bhargava & Richa Chilana
The conventional wisdom of our society, as pointed out by Shilpa Ranade, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Phadke in their book, Why Loiter: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (2011) is that “a loitering woman is up to no good. She is either mad, bad or dangerous to society.” Who would have thought that we will be living in a time when a loitering anybody is “mad, bad or dangerous to society.”
By Samiya Athar
Since the people do not have money to buy oil, salt, spices, they sell about half of the ration they get so that they can buy these items.
By Umang Kumar
He knew about the whole business of “paisa phenkna” – the luxury to spend from the vast disposable incomes and the wealth accruing from the legacies of our privileged backgrounds…he did not need a Marx or even a Thomas Piketty to tell him about class conflict and inequalities in the world.
By Rashid Askari
Universities are like bicycles. If you don’t ride and keep pushing the pedals, they will fall. So, whatever happens, they need to be kept functional. We have to think up and implement education strategies in view of this whole spectrum of natural, environmental, social, political, cultural and other related issues.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Not only national and global leaders speaking on electronic media and social network but also common citizens conversing at the dinner table have been drawing an analogy between the pandemic and war in terms of the nature and scale of the campaign of prevention, treatment and cure.
