Opinion
The gang rape of a 17 year old girl in posh part of Hyderabad has shocked India. The accused belong to influential political families and 5 of the 6 accused are minors.The young survivor was at a day time party on May 28 with her friends, where the accused got to know her and offered her a ride.What...
The world is battling a crisis on multiple fronts. From geopolitical tensions due to the Ukraine crisis to the economic fallout of the conflict.Everyone is feeling the pain. Last week, India registered a Whole Sale Price Index or WPI inflation of 15.08% for April, which is a 15 or 30 year high, depe...
India’s Supreme Court took a brave step this week, and put on hold a law blatantly used to silence dissenters and critics by different governments. The 162 year old sedition law could very well be on its way out and it is not a moment too soon.The court has said that no new sedition cases can ...
COVID-19 is back in many parts of the world. It’s rising rapidly in the UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand. While the US is preparing for a fresh wave. To make things worse, Israel has said it has recorded a new variant in two cases, a s...
As I write this column, we are seeing the first signs of India’s third Covid wave ebbing. Over the last few weeks, there was a sharp spike in cases and much like other parts of the world which saw an Omicron wave, here too the decline appears to be much quicker than the prolonged Delta wave of...
In India, almost everything about women is infantilised. We are regularly described as someone’s “mothers”, “sisters” or “daughters”, as if that is our only identity. Nothing cements this thought process more than the debate over raising the legal age at whi...
How should we remember 2021? It was the year we had hoped we would defeat COVID. We didn’t. For many, it was a year of loss, losing loved ones to the pandemic, often without getting a chance to say goodbye.For many others, it was the heartbreak and pain of being separated from loved ones stuck...
The other day I was on a flight from Hyderabad to Delhi. It was packed. The gentleman sitting next to me didn’t have his mask on. I was uncomfortable, so I gestured to the cabin crew to request him to wear it. India’s rules clearly say masks on planes are compulsory. My co passenger put ...
Lets get this straight: The UK is recognising people as “fully vaccinated” only if they have been jabbed with vaccines approved in the EU, the UK and the US. So these folks don’t have to quarantine and take a series of expensive RT-PCR COVID-19 tests when they come to the UK.This m...
Passengers from international flights arrive at Heathrow Airport in London, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)Do you miss travelling? The adventures of going to a new country and exploring its sights and culture? The excitement of eating new kinds of food, meeting new peopl...
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