SPECIAL ARTICLE

By TP Sreenivasan The frequency with which the IFS fraternity is losing its members to Covid is heart breaking. Although the Foreign Service is rather small, all of us do not meet each other because of the very nature of our peripatetic…

By Benjamin Lyngdoh          The title of the column translates into a phrase ‘In our own land; we do as we please.” Quite obviously, the phrase depicts a sense of pride and ownership of something and that it consequently entails a freedom…

By Sushil Kutty  Adar Poonawala is the ‘King of Vaccines’. And in today’s Covid-19 world, he’s bigger than Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani. Poonawala runs the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines with a…

By Albert Thyrniang Last Friday the Supreme Court warned that states and the police would face contempt charges if they restrict citizens' SOS calls for medical help via the social media. SOS, originally standing for ‘Save our Souls’ or…

By TP Sreenivasan A dictum that we do not remember in normal times is that success is meaningless without survival. But in the last one year, success has become synonymous with survival. Humanity has survived over centuries because of its…

By HH Mohrmen The second wave of COVID-19 which hit the nation has changed people’s (especially of those outside the country) perceptions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that of the country as a whole. The international media in…

By Rev. Lyndan Syiem I have experienced many illnesses and injuries in my life. But I never imagined that one day I would become a COVID 19 patient, one of the millions of sufferers in this present pandemic. That I can sit up and write two…

By Ambassador T P Sreenivasan ‘The trust some people in India had that the Biden-Harris administration would be friendly to India has been eroded already, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.’  India's honeymoon with the Biden…

By Arun Srivastava  Dr Navjot Dahiya, vice-president of the Indian Medical Association, has described Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “super-spreader” of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to him, the blame for this devastating second wave…

By Patricia Mukhim Much has been written about the traditional institutions in Meghalaya and many paeans sung about the ability of the Dorbar Shnong in particular to render service to their respective constituents especially during the…