ODE TO AN ORDINARY LIFE: REMEMBERING DR S.FAZALUDDIN
byMy father, Dr S. Fazaluddin (1942-2021), passed away earlier this month. After a brief battle fought in the wards and ICU of the hospital,…
Pandemic
A greater number of Kashmiri youth are picking up guns: Al Jazeera reports
byA Ph.D. scholar at a local university is suspected to have joined rebel ranks last month. Many Kashmiri youths have followed the suit and…
The Other COVID Warriors
byFighting the COVID battle shoulder-to-shoulder with the doctors and nurses is an army of sanitation workers. Four million of the Safai Karmacharis are the…
Trump freezes H1-B visas, affecting foreign workers and students
byNews: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order suspending work visas, including the H-1B category coveted by white-collar Indians, till the year-end…
SC allows for Puri Rath Yatra in the middle of pandemic
byNews: The Supreme Court announced on June 22 that the Rath Yatra, hugely popular among Hindus, would be allowed to take place, but only…
Kerala CM asks for PM-CARES norms to be reviewed
byNews: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked on June 16 for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to change the norms regarding the PM CARES fund….
The Economist unmasks the silencing of journalists in Asian countries
byCurbing journalists is a common practice across Asian countries. Many journalists who are critical of the regime that they are living under are simply…
Wall Street Journal reveals how tech firms spying is considered sacrosanct in a pandemic by governments
byA surveillance economy has proliferated thriving on the data for targeting ads at individuals, including their location information. These data are collected by location-tracking…
Cricketer Pathan sends money to cobbler struggling due to postponement of IPL 2020
byNews: Irfan Pathan sent Rs 25,000 to the “official cobbler” of Chepauk Stadium, Baskar. Due to the postponement of IPL 2020, Baskar was facing…
Politics of online education & subaltern imagination
byColonial imprints are still embedded and layered within different political, and social realities across the boundaries of the curriculum that is taught within the…