A Tsunami Of Suffering
-
‘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.
Harsh Mander
-
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.
Harsh Mander
-
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.
Harsh Mander
Trending
-
Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet
-
Journalist Nidhi Razdan quits NDTV
-
India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried
-
Watch: Bengaluru waiter effortlessly carries 16 plates of dosa, serves several customers at once
-
Watch: Pakistani TV anchors are stunned by Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul’s lavish wedding gifts
-
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?
Harsh Mander
-
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.
Harsh Mander
-
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.
Harsh Mander
Video
-
Watch: Bystander, police officer rescue driver moments before crashed car bursts into flames
-
Watch: Bengaluru waiter effortlessly carries 16 plates of dosa, serves several customers at once
-
Watch: Pakistani TV anchors are stunned by Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul’s lavish wedding gifts
-
Watch: McDonald’s first automated outlet is open for business in Texas, US
-
Watch: Woman caught on camera shoplifting in a bookstore in Jalandhar, Punjab
-
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?
Harsh Mander
-
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.
Harsh Mander
-
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.
Harsh Mander
The Reel
-
‘Lost’ trailer: Yami Gautam Dhar plays a journalist investigating a disappearance
-
‘The Romantics’ trailer: Docuseries pays tribute to the Yash Raj Films legacy
-
Film ‘Follower’ crawls inside the mind of a social media troll in Belgaum
-
Shah Rukh Khan on ‘Pathaan’ success: ‘Have forgotten those four years in the last four days’
-
In Ranjan Palit’s new film, a ‘watchdog society’ filled with persecution and paranoia
-
Harsh Mander: School closures amid Covid-19 have left a whole generation of Indians behind
As education went online during the pandemic, lakhs of children from poorer households with no smartphones and access to the internet were missed out.
Harsh Mander
-
Harsh Mander: How many Indians actually died during the second Covid-19 wave?
Some people on the ground offer compelling reasons to believe that the actual toll during the Delta surge was much higher than the official numbers.
Harsh Mander
-
Harsh Mander: How India’s middle classes ignored the suffering of the poor during the second wave
The affluent have become bereft of compassion to the deprivation of the socially disadvantaged.
Harsh Mander
The Field
-
IND v NZ: Gill’s century and Pandya’s four-for helps India win by 168 runs and clinch series 2-1
-
IND vs NZ: Reactions as Shubman Gill scores his first T20I century – ‘Unreal, smooth, clean striking
-
IND vs NZ: India go in with Umran Malik over Yuzvendra Chahal in series decider at Ahmedabad
-
Watch: Sachin Tendulkar’s speech as Shafali Verma-led U19 World Cup winning-team is felicitated
-
Cricket: Nepal board lifts suspension on Sandeep Lamichhane