A useful trick handling questions you can’t or don’t want to answer is to pretend you’ve been asked something else and respond to that. It’ll take a while befor...
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A recent study by Public Health England (PHE) which assesses the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine, known in India as Covishield, against the B.1.617.2 variant o...
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Just before he lost power Dr. Manmohan Singh said history would be kind to him. I’m sure it will but it’s too early for such history to be written. However, what th...
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Good governments communicate and they do it for one simple reason. Their intention is to carry the people with them. So they don’t simply inform, they also consciousl...
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I remember Soli Sorabjee’s birthday as if it was yesterday. It was his ninety first but this one was special. Last year, because of the pandemic, he couldn’t celebr...
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The first wave of the virus taught me to live with myself. I used to find being alone unsettling. I would joke that I don’t like my own company but the truth is it wa...
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The one thing journalists are good at is asking questions. We’re naturally curious, even inquisitive. We rarely accept at face value what is said to us. If it’s fro...
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At the time I wondered if the wink was deliberate. Later, I began to question whether I’d imagined or even made it up. But when it supposedly happened it was hard to ...
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As the daily increase in Covid cases surges past 145,000, leaving the first spike far behind, there are two issues that aren’t getting the attention they deserve. And...
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I often ask myself the question ‘what sort of democracy is India?’ I don’t need Freedom House to confirm that at home we’re only “partly free” or V-Dem to c...
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