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India coronavirus dispatch: A constitutional duty towards our urban poor

From treating migrant workers justly and humanely, to flattening the state-level curves, and how epidemics change the course of nations - read these and more in today's dispatch

India coronavirus dispatch: A big blow to fuel consumption in the country

From food shortage for migrants, to farmers facing trouble in Haryana, and the economic impact of the lockdown

India coronavirus dispatch: Re-imagining our economic choices going forward

From cooperation between Union and state governments, to reimagining our economic choices, and how coronavirus attacks the human body step by step - read these and more in today's India dispatch

India coronavirus dispatch: Temporary troubles or a crumbling world order?

From impact on the tourism industry, to a cost-benefit analysis of lockdown extension, and whether you should add gloves to your daily outfits - read these and more in today's India dispatch

World coronavirus dispatch: The strangest Easter, and surging US death toll

From clampdowns globally, to the US surpassing Italy in Covid-19 deaths, the source of China's new infections, and how Sweden is bucking a global trend - read these and more in today's dispatch

India coronavirus dispatch: What happens when a Covid-19 case is confirmed?

The scientists helping fight a pandemic, the future of agricultural markets, and how the government responds when a Covid-19 case is confirmed - read these and more in today's India dispatch

India coronavirus dispatch: Is extending the lockdown a good idea?

From understanding what extending the lockdown means, to fake news crisis among migrant workers, and the economic impact of the 21-day lockdown

India coronavirus digest: Participatory governance, alert public discussion

Participatory governance and alert public discussion, a different economic approach, and all about hydroxychloroquine and coronavirus. Read this and more in today's India coronavirus dispatch

India coronavirus dispatch: Fighting today, planning for tomorrow's battles

New economic models around health care, human rights and democracy during a pandemic, and whether the summer heat will kill the coronavirus - read these and more in today's India coronavirus dispatch

India coronavirus dispatch: 1 undiagnosed case can infect 16,000 in 14 days

The impact of a single undiagnosed case, practising information hygiene, and what you can do to tide over the economic fallout - read these and more in today's India coronavirus dispatch

Harry Potter - 19 years later

According to JK Rowling, this is the last Harry Potter story. For each one of us - the biggest fans of Harry Potter - this is devastating

Six books that you should have read already

Books that do what great literature promises - keep you engrossed and make you think

A reader's Happy Place

Subsequent essays map the history of Indian writing in English and raise critical questions on the identity of the Indian writer

A conversation with historian Srinath Raghavan

The winner of the 2015 Infosys Prize in social sciences talks about researching history, writing books and the subject of his next book

Adventures of a voluntary vagabond

Why Ismat Chugtai's stories should not be dropped from Rajasthan's school textbooks

What would be the purpose of Literature, or even more simply, stories, if we were confined to read only those identical to our own

Orhan Pamuk's strange and sublime realms

Pamuk makes readers from all over the world recognise Istanbul as their own

An old book in these new times

A Fine Balance, written two decades ago, finds resonance in the present time of religious fragmentation and political decay

How I discovered the genius of Jhumpa Lahiri

A single-sitting reading of The Lowland made me realise how Lahiri's work is extremely layered and much deeper than just the words on the page.

On Writing Well

A conversation with journalist and author Samanth Subramanian, on writing as a craft, and on narrative non-fiction writing.