Within days of imposing the lockdown, we saw very strange things happening in nature. Delhiites saw clear water flowing in Yamuna, something they could not recall seeing before. People in Jalandhar, woke up one morning to behold a clear view of the Dhauladhar range after years. Air and water polluti...
There has been lots of criticism of the `20 lakh crore ‘stimulus’ since its announcement by the prime minister. Some say, people wanted outright cash grants in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; but were given loans. Others call it a hoax since the direct financial commitment of the government ...
We are now in the third stage of the lockdown. Yet the curve of virus attack has not flattened. People locked at home are getting restless. Even entertainment cannot keep them engaged any longer. India’s television viewing, which had jumped 40% in the 5th week of lockdown, has dropped to 31% in th...
We are now in unprecedented times. The World Wars, the famines of history may have led to huge destructionand deaths; but in no time has such an event like Covid-19 threatened humanity so comprehensively – its life, livelihood, work, and its business and economy. Let us summarise the pa...
With increasing waves of nationalism throughout the world, we had thought that globalisation was in retreat. But the Corona virus threat has proved us wrong. In the new networked world of the social media, a virus, like all other intangibles, can sail past all physical walls. Apart from an epi...
America loves India, America respects India and America will be forever a faithful and loyal friend to the Indian people,” said the US President Donald Trump. The First Lady and the President travelled 8000 miles to convey this message to over one lakh Indians who assembled to greet him at the new...
Even the critics who were unhappy with the Union Budget had to grudgingly admit that, after the placing of budget in the parliament, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman’s move to meet businessmen and members of different chambers of commerce, along with all her cabinet secretaries was a wise mo...
Today we live in hard times. The society is apparently divided between two extremes – the bhakts and the critics. So is the media. Earlier it was said about the media that when it was asked to bend, it crawled. Today, it moves further and follows the traditional ‘shastanga pranam’ or falls fla...
Renewed tension in West Asia forebodes a troubled 2020. The US troops’ killing of the Iranian military chief General Quassem Soleimani, followed by Iran’s retaliation on the Iraqi Balad Airbase, which hosts the US troops, some say, could be the beginning of the third world war. Iran’s supreme ...
We are seeing protest marches against China in Hong Kong. The president of the United States is on the verge of being impeached. In Spain, where the venue of climate meeting was changed, there are angry protests. In the roads of Paris we saw climate agitators. In the Netherlands, thousands of farmer...
