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In the context of the second Covid surge, a group of 116 former civil servants has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the government of not addressing the crucial issues at stake. What makes this “open letter” significant is that the signatories include former...

Mark Lowcock & Raj Shah When the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases...

It’s not just what you eat that is killing the earth and all its inhabitants. It is also what you wear. Every time you buy an article of clothing you make a choice between the biosphere and the lithosphere. The biosphere is an agricultural field...

It is an irony that the Supreme Court had to remind the Centre that it has to procure COVID-19 vaccines and distribute them throughout the country instead of leaving the States to fend for themselves since Article 1 of the Constitution says India or Bharat...

The current crop of top BJP leadership, it seems, hasn’t learnt or, even worse, refuses to learn any lesson from the egregious mistake of its senior leaders when they made the cruel joke of “India Shining” campaign in 2004 to cover AB Vajpayee-government’s failure. Many...

Lakshadweep islands across 12 atolls, closest to Kerala, constitute India’s least populated Union Territory with a population size of 65,000 living in only 10 of its 36 islands. It is now making national headlines for a series of controversial proposals mooted by Praful K Patel,...

India’s foreign minister was till Saturday on a visit to the United States. The first half of his trip was apparently not very productive because the person he had come to meet, the American secretary of state (which is their title for foreign minister) had...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pep talk to district magistrates on the Covid-19 issue in an online meeting has got some raising the issue of whether it was right for Modi to interact directly with district magistrates and other officials while bypassing their respective ministers. Moreover,...

Michael Mirny In 2021, the world will start to recover from Covid-19, thanks to unprecedented scientific cooperation and global vaccination efforts. Economies will emerge from the crisis, and communities will begin the long road back to “normal.” But it won’t be the old normal: Some...

Hong Nam-ki Unlike the United States, Europe, and other early industrialisers whose carbon dioxide emissions have largely already peaked, most other countries were not concerned about climate change until recently. But over the past year, there has been a surge of governments announcing target dates...