Need of the hour: Business unusual

April 27, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s video-conference with Chief Ministers on Monday assumes importance for the role it will play in deciding whether or not India will go for a further lockdown post May 3. Considering the situation is alarming in certain states and union territories, namely Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat and West...

There’s no middle path in fight against Covid-19

April 25, 2020

Lockdown or no lockdown? There can’t be a middle path in the world’s fight against coronavirus. Unfortunately, the world’s only superpower – the United States -- seems to be sending ambivalent, if not confusing, signals in its approach to take on the pandemic. The US, currently helpless, devastated and in...

India fights back Covid-19 resolutely

April 24, 2020

Resilient India fights back! Call it the first silver lining emerging in India’s fight against coronavirus pandemic, the sharp rise in recovery cases (over 4,250 and counting) is the first feel-good positive news for us. Else, our eyes were always glued to the TV sets counting the Covid-19 positive tally...

This isn’t journalism, Western media

April 23, 2020

Edward Said famously wrote in Orientalism that all Western discourse about the East was complicit in the aims of European imperialism. The behaviour of Western media vis-à-vis India is an indicator to that closed, imperialistic mindset. It often goes into the slam-India mode and blatantly questions its “secular fabric” without...