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The UK Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic
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India’s Initial Coronavirus Response Carried Echoes Of The Colonial Era
byThe shadow of India’s imperial past looms large over the coronavirus crisis.
Thoughts Of Paradise
byThe idea of paradise could be a glorious day – or a dystopian facade – filled with snippets from reality.
Why Scientists Must Unite Against Chemical Weapons & Gas Attacks
byChemists involved in the peaceful & legitimate use of chemicals must ensure all supplies are stored in terrorist-proof ways.
Plastics: Good, Bad & Ugly
byPlastic has revolutionised our world, all right, but not everything is hunky-dory in the ‘malleable’ story.
King Donald
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Balraj Sahni: Teacher. Writer. Actor. Communist.
byBalraj Sahni was an untypical film-world figure. He spoke his mind and never minced words, regardless of whom it upset.
Irrfan Khan & Rishi Kapoor Will Live Forever Through Their Films
byIrrfan Khan & Rishi Kapoor created their own space in the competitive world of Cinema & left an indelible mark.
How The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed 12 Million Indians
byThe Spanish flu killed over 12 million Indians; the majority of those affected were Mohammedans and low-caste Hindus. Why?
Alfred Hitchcock: The Rembrandt Of Suspense
byAlfred Hitchcock was a great visual alchemist — a master of foreboding. He was a film-maker who was just ‘impossible.’
Why Isn’t The Apocalypse Imagined In Indian Popular Culture?
byThe apocalyptic state of our country makes it very hard to consider that something worse could exist.
How The Rich Reacted To The Bubonic Plague Has Eerie Similarities To Today’s Pandemic
byThe wealthy moved to pastoral second homes, while the poor, packed into shanty homes, were compelled to show up at work.
Encrypted Insecurities
byWith all movement stalled, for once, the world seems to behave itself. For a poet, this bizarre tranquillity like utopia.
What COVID-19 Does To The Heart
byOnce people with heart conditions get COVID-19, they develop a severe form of the infection plus other complications.