There is a lot of speculation currently about how COVID-19 is going to change our lives and the course of…
When pandemics have led to persecution of certain communities, which has been pretty common as we discussed in the previous…
On April 6, 2020, Subroto Bagchi, chief spokesperson of the Odisha government for COVID-19 pandemic, warned in his daily briefing…
India bore the brunt of the pandemics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the plague pandemic and the…
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that long long back it was a maxim that the plague never appeared east of the Indus…
A research sponsored by the Chinese Government in 2019 had warned of a new coronavirus from bats in China. “The…
Before the 20th century, the plague caused by rats was the recurring pandemic (there had been other pandemics though like…
Historically, most pandemics happened when the viruses were shipped away across the globe. The plague, the deadliest recurring pandemic in…
The day Satyanagar, where I stay, was sealed on April 8, 2020, I waited with bated breath at the stroke…
I remember meeting General KPD Samanta for the first time, a few years back at a meeting of Rotary Heritage,…