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The COVID-19 outbreak has caused a huge public health crisis across the globe. While the imminent health concerns naturally took priority...

“Bhaiyya ek chai”, the usual afternoon line a tapri situated outside any office was familiar with, somehow evaporated amidst this lockdow...

Jaba Da sat down in the nearest bench of the tea stall stationed exactly opposite to his workshop sipping a cup of tea before he would gi...

Remember the first cassette you bought yourself as a ‘90s kid? I do, it was The Sound of Music audio. The ‘90s encompassed a period when ...

Most of us brush aside the magic that the good old radio had brought to our lives in the ’90s. Well, back in those days, owning a radio w...

Kabita, a 22-year-old woman, lives in a basti next to the posh residential complexes of Kolkata’s South City. She runs a family of five- ...

As the Incumbent Government approaches towards experiencing what can precisely be termed as 'Economic Slowdown', here are the two deep cr...

The 25th of July, this year, gave us all an incredulous gasp when we had to painfully witness the terribly unsettling picture of Derek Ch...

India seems to be in the throes of the fast-becoming culpable crime against its very own economy. In the penultimate week, first, the Int...

The startling discovery based on various metrics of measuring the actual growth of the Indian economy between 2011-12 and 2016-17 clearly...

Manav and Abhay live in the same society in Andheri. The two toddlers who just turned 5 have been moved to a regular school from a ‘full-...

Sitting by the little rocking chair outside her little hut, the 20-year-old Chanda looks at the toilet with tears dripping down her eyes....

In recent times, two countries shook the nation with what was initially viewed as a ‘this too shall pass’ kind of trade war. The escalati...

“The Sound of Silence”, originally “The Sounds of Silence” has gone on to become a great song, and remains relevant till date. However, t...

This Sunday morning, I decided to take myself back to that one afternoon summer at the Bombay Central station with me staring at that par...

On March 4th, this year, in a letter addressed to the United States, President Donald Trump discussed plans to end the trade benefits ext...

a story that narrates about the “behind the scenes” audience

The period when Britain was drowning and India was kept waiting

My insights into the Budget 2019