India, March 9 -- It took a few weeks for the world to realise how serious the new virus radiating out of Wuhan was. Once realisation hit, by January 2020, a unique effort got underway. Within days, s... Read More
India, March 9 -- In 2020, Zoom became a verb, and work from home (WFH), a necessity. In 2021, return to office (RTO) was a catchphrase that, some employees claimed, symbolised corporate greed that p... Read More
India, March 9 -- "All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, And emptiness above." These lines from Vikram Seth's haunting poem, All You Who Sleep Tonight, says ... Read More
India, March 9 -- No book or film prepared us for 2020. We had watched blockbusters about asteroid hits, zombie apocalypses, food wars, fury roads and robot revolutions. We'd even watched movies about... Read More
India, March 9 -- By any measure, Kamala Devi has lived a difficult life. Born in northern Bihar, the 45-year-old spent her youth tending to her children, then followed her labourer husband to Delhi,... Read More
India, March 9 -- The pandemic affected almost every aspect of human life. In fact, there is evidence that it is still impacting how we work, live, plan for the future. The continuing impact has its r... Read More
India, March 9 -- The pandemic was a universal, but also uniquely personal, experience. As it changed individuals, it inevitably changed how they thought of their society, the world around them, and ... Read More
India, March 9 -- Made in China. Five years ago, the innocuous tag attached to so many of our purchases, from toys and electronics to clothes and the idols one might worship, acquired an entirely new... Read More
India, March 9 -- More children own a smartphone. More children are lonely. Most children know what it's like to leave school one day, and not go back for years. When the world looks back on how the ... Read More
India, March 9 -- How did a once-in-a-century pandemic impact the Indian economy? The most mechanical or rather dehumanised way to answer this question would be to say it triggered an annual economic... Read More