Guest Column

COVID has exposed the callousness, under-preparedness and obstinacy of world leaders who are supposed to be torchbearers for the second and third world countries. Were we overestimating their vision and...

When spring rolled in around mid-March, 2020, with riots of colour from Daffodils and Crocus filling the British gardens, parks and roadsides, there were no admirers with a spring in...

Bhubaneswar needs to have a viable exit plan in place prior to easing of lockdown. The current zoning of the city may provide a blueprint for land use but there...

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic highlights the urgent need for careful evaluation of its transmission. Though the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the virus transmission is mostly through...

We have come across two different types of development in a small time gap but they are worth comparing. On the one hand, an RTI revealed that the Reserve Bank...

When I was asked to self quarantine myself at home, I was interested to explore why a 14th century maritime practice of “quarantine” was being used in 2020. Also, after...

What started as a mystery disease is caused by SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) and its first outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, when...

The lockdown due to coronavirus has brought about a sea change in how we human beings, even birds and animals live. To a large extent, animal behaviour depends on the...

Just a day before April 29, 2020, if anyone had asked me who my top 10 favorite male actors are, he would not have found a mention - maybe not...

The coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 (known as SARS-CoV-2 in medical parlance), has caused havoc across the world, bringing nations to a lockdown of unseen proportions. In all the affected places, there...