“With the lockdown, the people are binge-watching contents on the OTT platforms. Online concerts and webinars are taking place on Facebook and Instagram. But we wanted to do something where we can participate and contribute, instead of appreciating from a distance”, Aritra Basu, MPhil Scholar in...
A few years back Deepika Padukone had struggled to hold back tears as she talked about depression. The news about her dark days when she lacked the desire to even get out of bed, had people talking. The most common reaction was surprise. People wondered why a celebrity would even be depressed? But a...
Aristotle had said, “Man is a political animal.” One meaning of this is that man by nature, wants to live in a ‘city’ or a ‘polis’. This means man wants to live in a place where there exists law and order and a government. Savage life is not preferred by man. Throughout history, it has b...
The Covid-19 pandemic meant a muted celebration of International Tea day. The United Nations (UN) had declared May 21 as International Tea Day. India took the initiative for this and started this on its own on December 15, 2005. A year later, Sri Lanka celebrated it and it spread to the rest of the ...
The nationwide lockdown following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down offices of the sprawling services sector in India and closed down factories halting urban economic activities. But crops standing across the vast fields of the country kept growing and farmers continued to nurture ...
“I was shutting down the windows when I saw a tree fly past our house. It took me some time to realise what I just saw. I had never encountered a storm like this,” recalled Abhirup Chakraborty, a south Kolkata resident. He was referring to the cyclone Amphan that had battered West Bengal o...
The economic situation in India has been precarious and on a persistent slide. The lockdown to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the economy further downhill. It has also compelled the government to come up with several special packages to revitalize the economy, the latest one being the stimu...
2019 was not a bad year for the Indian tourism industry. The central government was quite attentive towards the tourism and hospitality sector having launched positive schemes like Swadesh Darshan - Integrated Development of Theme-Based Tourist Circuits and the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spir...