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Lockdown with a human face: Immediate focus should be on alleviating hardships of poor, vulnerable groups




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Both US and China face internal credibility crisis. It could work to detriment of international system




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The public policy dilemma: There is indeed tension between lives and livelihoods




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Why don’t we see the women? The untold story of Covid-19 migration




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Metros are the weak links against coronavirus pandemic




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Tavleen Singh writes: Coronavirus pandemic gives PM Modi opportunity to go back to his promises




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‘One more glorious day without fear… Breathe girl’




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UK Sinha writes: Mutual fund problem can swiftly migrate to financial services, then spread soon to real economy




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Social distancing is antithetical to festivals, but it is the only way




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East India will require heavy investment to tide over post-COVID loss of livelihoods





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India’s digital divide makes the state distant from those who need it most




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Back to Life: Everyone’s had it with lockdown. What follows, next?




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Coronavirus crisis delivers yet another blow to political fortunes of Pakistan PM Imran Khan




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Judiciary has set an example on how to combine social distancing and work




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It was theatre that defined and consumed Usha Ganguly






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How Iran’s decision to put religion on hold to manage Covid-19 altered its citizens’ view of faith




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Our children need a happy, congenial environment to grow up in, not a climate of fear




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Post-COVID economic models, rules of governance, must be bottom-up, not top-down




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Current crisis consolidates populist rapport between a leader and a fictional representation of people




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Economy and society will not be the same after pandemic retreats




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India can collaborate with the US and Germany in moulding a new world order




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Forty Years Ago, April 30, 1980: Assam Climbdown





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It is now essential to begin end of lockdown




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B R Ambedkar laid the foundation for workers’ rights, social security in India




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More than ever, the rights of workers, vulnerable need to be secured




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Irrfan struggled before he made it. That’s what made him such a good actor




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An open-ended, expanded employment guarantee at minimum wages should be its centrepiece




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The price we pay for turning a blind eye to migrant workers




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Can we have a ration of relief?




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Forty Years Ago, May 2, 1980: Five-day Week




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A new phase of the fightback




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After pandemic passes, MP will emerge as logistics and warehousing hub for rebalanced supply chains




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State attacks Dalits via anti-Left rhetoric, as directly attacking them would cost it heavily




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We will never know how many people died of starvation, because no state government will admit to starvation deaths




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What will we even tell our children? How long before they can take the Metro or hug a friend




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When all this is over, it really is important that big bosses of Indian journalism urge season of introspection




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A new grammar for the pandemic




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The new capitalism: In the foreseeable future, politics will drive economic policies, not market-based rationality




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Ramadan marks the revelation of the Quran, which places knowledge above all




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In our pursuit of economic growth, we ignored voices of India’s informal sector for too long




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South Korea holds lessons for leaders trying to use crisis to consolidate power




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Dealing with Covid-19 pandemic: Why the ‘Kerala Model’ is working




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Why the work of a writer in France of another era strikes a chord with our present predicament




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SC decision will remove arbitrariness in medical college admissions




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How do we build a society less susceptible to debt, disease, devastation?




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The Buddha’s message, for a better world