Politics
Protesting farmers make Singhu Border their home a...
May 13, 2021
“There is a memorable event from our village where a liquor shop had opened in 1987. So our mothers and grandmothers got together and protested against the liquor shop. That protest went on for one year and for what? Just for a liquor shop. After a year, the women won the battl...
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We failed, went by government’s false assurances...
May 13, 2021
Only a day after bloated, decomposing bodies washed up on banks of the Ganga in Bihar’s Buxar, another 100 bodies, all suspected to be Covid-19 positive, were spotted floating in a river in Chausa village, located on Bihar’s border with Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday, May 11. On t...
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Thriving Covid-19 black market as desperate famili...
May 11, 2021
Recently, a professor of the Jamia Milia Islamia University in New Delhi, who had a severe case of Covid-19 infection, was battling for life at Life Line Hospital in Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi. The doctors said that he urgently needed oxygen in order to pull through. As the profes...
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Pandemic second wave rages on as Modi remains miss...
May 7, 2021
The last two weeks have been the bloodiest for India since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in February 2020. Practically every single day, new highs are being reported, both in fresh daily infections as well as in death toll due to the pandemic, with over 400,000 new cas...
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Bengal’s voters say not surprised by results of ...
May 5, 2021
Ultimately, a lone, wheelchair-bound woman proved more powerful than the heaviest of heavyweights of the biggest, and no-doubt the richest, political party in the world and the one which has been ruling India not only at the federal level but also most of the states for the past ...
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Delhi continues to fight for life as Covid-19 rage...
May 3, 2021
“I lost my maternal aunt today, who was staying with my mother for the past 40 years. We lost her only because we could not get a single bed for her in an Intensive Care Unit. I stay in Mumbai but when I got to know that she is unwell, I flew here to take […]
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With oxygen going rare, Delhi gasps for breath of ...
April 28, 2021
Kayam Raza, a resident of Jaitpur Khadda Colony has been waiting in the queue since morning to get his oxygen cylinder refilled. Raza, whose 70-year-old mother is sick and in urgent need of oxygen, says he could not get her admitted in any hospital and has been waiting to ...
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From helping the world, India turns to seek help f...
April 27, 2021
On Saturday, a C-17 Hercules transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force took off from Changi Airport in Singapore and barely a couple of hours later it landed at the IAF base at Panagarh in West Bengal. The aircraft had just completed a special and urgent mission of transporting ...
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Crematoriums, corpses and chaos
April 24, 2021
“First we had to run a lot to keep him alive, now after his death also we have to struggle to arrange the cremation,” says a young man as he was waiting at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat, for his turn to conduct the final rites of his relative who had succumbed to Covid-19. ...
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Second wave of coronavirus renders hospitals in De...
April 23, 2021
Ever since the pandemic broke last year, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital in Delhi has been at the forefront of the capital’s fight against Covid19, leading the charge of hospitals run by the Delhi government in the city. But while it proved effective last year, in fac...
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