With lockdown in place for different zones in the country, the time has come that politicisation of this massive drive must end. Lockdown should not be politicised in India.

Let’s not politicise lockdown

Noted economist and former governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Raghuram Rajan has said that India needs to move out of the coronavirus-enforced lockdown in a measured way but should be as fast as possible.

India needs to move out of coronavirus lockdown in a measured way: Raghuram Rajan

When you grow up, the only thing you want to avoid is a routine. I avoided routine for 20 years as a reporter. Now I’m caught in a newsroom and find myself as a prisoner of routine.

Blog: Surviving the routine during coronavirus lockdown

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s elaborate press conference on Zoom was a sober affair. Unlike his usual self, where Rahul Gandhi can become aggressive and pushy during a press conference, he was unusually interactive and refrained from making any strong comment against the government.

A small image reboot for Rahul Gandhi

On April 6, 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) quietly completed 40 years in Indian politics. Though, as an ideology, it existed from 1951 in the form of Jana Sangh, but it truly tasted electoral and political victory when it was born in the avatar of BJP in 1980.

40 years of BJP: A Remarkable Journey

The last 10 years of Indian media has been dominated with polarised debated focused on views and not on the ground report. The shift was visible in 2010 but became a norm by 2013.

Coronavirus impact: Return of civic journalism

Lockdown in India, apart from other things, will be defined by the visuals of migrant workers trudging along the national highway to their respective homes. It seemed that planners completely forgot about the crores of migrant and daily wage workers in the city.

Week 2 of coronavirus lockdown: Grace under fire

In the last 5 days, I have crossed the sea. Gone are the royal days of cribbing in the morning where I demanded ‘tasty’ food to be stuffed into my tiffin. Now the demand is reduced to anything edible.

Blog: Day 5 - honey, what are we going to do this Sunday?

21-day lockdown is dreadful. All good things in life will fall short as 4 hours weren’t enough to stock all the good things for the next 21 days. Everyone expected the lockdown to take place in a benign form.

The sweetest word is 93.7: Day 3 of lockdown

Boredom is an understatement. You find few people in your colony, fewer on streets and very few inside your office. Markets are closed. People have their mouths covered.

Blog: Day 2 of lockdown - boredom is an understatement

Janata curfew was obeyed with dedication and celebrated with great fanfare at 5 pm on Sunday. Many even broke the rule not understanding the purpose of the curfew.

A day after Janata Curfew: Household work matters

What do you do when everything you touch, smell and probably eat has the potential to capture your internal ecosystem and make you fall ill. A story which looked exotic and confined to the Eastern corner of the world has come home to roost.

Coronavirus outbreak will test moral strength of the Indian society

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