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‘When all this is over’: What would a better, post-pandemic future look like?
In the final part of the special series on the second wave of Covid-19, Harsh Mander imagines what a place of kindness would look like.
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Memories of Covid-19 may fade, but the compassion of Indians who rose to the occasion inspires hope
Even as government abandoned its people during the country’s gravest humanitarian crisis ever, citizens went above and beyond to help each other.
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How the Centre’s disastrous decisions on vaccines cost the lives of lakhs of Indians
The government instead went into a publicity overdrive later, bragging about its vaccinations while brushing under the carpet the bodies of the second wave.
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Trending
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Journalist Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV
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Why you can’t keep Anurag Kashyap down
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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The big news: Odisha Health Minister Naba Das dies of bullet injury, and nine other top stories
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Ten students suspended in Ajmer university for watching BBC documentary on Gujarat riots
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Harsh Mander: As India gasped for oxygen in the second wave, those in power looked the other way
Why did the country have to go through the Covid-19 horrors of the summer of 2021?
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Harsh Mander: Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002?
Reconstructing the murder in Ahmedabad of the politician-poet during the Gujarat riots.
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Harsh Mander: How some exploited India’s Covid-19 crisis to make money
Amid the pandemic, the country experienced cruel extortion from corporate leaders to the smallest providers of medical and funeral essentials.
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Video
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Watch: Three snow leopard cubs on a mountain road at night flee as car drives behind them
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Watch: Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav sings Hindi film hit with singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya
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Watch: Former Pakistan cricket captain Sarfaraz Ahmed sings for cricketer Shan Masood at his wedding
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‘Space travel will let us live forever’: Video of writer Ray Bradbury’s 1974 interview resurfaces
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‘Let’s make bubble tea’: Interactive Google Doodle marks third anniversary of boba tea emoji launch
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As the wealthy converge on Davos to discuss the world’s problems, a case for taxing the rich
Harsh Mander and Prabhat Patnaik discuss funding universal social and economic rights, not just a universal basic income, in a time of widening inequalities.
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Harsh Mander: Why did hospital beds fall so disastrously short during India’s second Covid-19 wave?
The World Health Organization recommends at least five beds for a population of 1,000, ten times more than what the country had accomplished since its freedom.
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As Khargone smoulders, a former civil servant recalls the Ram temple riots in the town in 1989
The Madhya Pradesh town has a long history of communal violence, notes Harsh Mander.
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The Reel
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Why you can’t keep Anurag Kashyap down
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Start the week with a film: ‘Force Majeure’ is a chilly satire about modern marriage
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ review: Sincere, plodding effort to debunk WhatsApp myths about the Mahatma
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‘Pathaan’ review: Shah Rukh Khan lights up an entertaining spy thriller
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Harsh Mander: Despite warnings, Modi government had let India sleepwalk into the second wave
How did the country slip deep into the coronavirus hell of the summer of 2021?
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Harsh Mander: The many sacrifices of unsung heroes on India’s Covid-19 frontline
Many at the lower ends of the public health hierarchy were highly stretched, barely recognised, rarely celebrated and almost totally unprotected.
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Harsh Mander: Covid-19 has left India’s workers more powerless than ever before
They are now alone in the world, hungry, jobless and with zero bargaining power and protection – and the employers know that.
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The Field
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India vs NZ: Pandya and Co level series in low-scoring thriller with a 6-wicket win in Lucknow
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FIH Hockey Men’s World Cup: Germany reclaim title after another epic comeback in final vs Belgium
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ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup: India defeat England to become first-ever champions
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Bismah Maroof column: Series in Australia provided a great chance for Pakistan to prepare for WC
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ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup: Reactions as India become champions – ‘Huge shot in the arm’