corona diaries

More than 1.5 million lives worldwide, more than 1.35 lakh in India. Shocking numbers. And the virus is not done yet. Nearly a year into the pandemic, we cannot even hazard a guess on how…

Four million up, and numbers no more shock. Everything else about the pandemic remaining where they were -- no vaccine, no cure, no jobs, no halt to the slide in the economy, no good news on…

Three million plus, and now sky is the limit. Experts have stopped devising false ceilings after they were breached by the virus every single time. It's okay that we no more hear of peaks,…

The furiously wriggling worm flung itself inches into the air, crashed on the floor, wiggled some more and went flat as a soggy piece of thread. That was the end of the virus. This…

Dynasty per se should not be a dirty word in India, a country steeped in feudal tendencies. In fact, going by our popular culture, there's certain adoration for the idea in the country. But…

How quickly things change! When we launched Corona Diaries on March 21, COVID-19 was still shaping into a pandemic. It had completed its cross-continental jump by then, spreading from Wuhan…

If monsoon is the season you love, then you must be missing a lot. It's the time Nature gets in touch with its finer self and turns into poet, painter, designer, architect and landscape…

The boy at home keeps revising his wishlist. The original was prepared before his board exams. After all the hard work and stress, he wanted to lock his books in the cupboard for eternity…

The mention of alcohol triggered odd reactions in this friend. His droopy eyes assumed a bright glint, his lips parted in a beatific smile, the anaemic face found a reddish tint and his mind…

Six lakh plus cases so far and more than 18,000 deaths. And it's still not clear whether we have touched the peak, at the mid-point or only a few notches up the bottom. We are close to…