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COVID 19, another name for the novel coronavirus, has put all of us in a situation never seen before. It has leveled rich and poor, young and old, powerful and...

When pandemics have led to persecution of certain communities, which has been pretty common as we discussed in the previous article, they are often accused of using disease as a...

“Mohabbat hai kya cheez,humko batao Yeh kisne shuruki, hume bhi sunao!” Undoubtedly, Rishi if we take Bollywood. He came. He saw. He conquered. Not one but a billion hearts in...

As a young naval officer, with a diadem of Alexander Selkirk’s ‘The Monarch of All I Survey’ (in reference to the poem by William Cowper, 1731-1800) gait and anticipation, I...

It is not easy to put Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan in one story. They were so unlike each other, almost from two different planets. They belonged to different generations,...

India bore the brunt of the pandemics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the plague pandemic and the Spanish Flu, which arrived on ships to Mumbai and spread...

As we all know by now – COVID-19 is here to stay. At the moment, neither are vaccines available nor do we know when vaccines will be commercially available in...

The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the world at a time when my mind has wandered in the quest to find answers to uncertainty. For instance, why does uncertainty perplex some...

In the end, there is hope. Mankind has suffered worse and survived. There is no reason why it won't this time. Covid-19, as evidence suggests, maybe a midget among pandemics...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that long long back it was a maxim that the plague never appeared east of the Indus River. That is of course because then the origins of...