pandemic

EnvironmentHeadlineScience

What’s Wrong with The World: From a Conservationist’s Diary – Part 2

by Rushikesh Chavan12 July 202012 July 2020 4 min read

We must stop putting people, corporations, and governments in ‘good’ and ‘bad’ boxes.

Foreign PolicyHeadlinePolitics

Singapore’s First Internet (Only) Elections 2020: Global Lessons for Post- Pandemic Democracies

by Manishankar Prasad12 July 202012 July 2020 4 min read

The online space dominated the elections; for the resource-poor opposition, this was an opportunity to be creative in its outreach, and they made the most of it.

Economy

India’s Rising Petroleum Prices, Despite Global Fall

by Ajit Phadke10 July 202012 July 2020 4 min read

Since imports account for nearly 84% of India’s petroleum consumption, any change in the global prices significantly impacts the prices in the country.

Foreign PolicyPolitics

How Pragmatism Drives Democracy, Digital and Discourse in Singapore

by Manishankar Prasad8 July 202012 July 2020 5 min read

How does a country even the size of Singapore hold an election, campaign and voting processes, amid a pandemic?

EnvironmentScience

What’s Wrong with The World: From a Conservationist’s Diary – Part 1

by Rushikesh Chavan7 July 202012 July 2020 5 min read

So, what is really wrong with the world? Why are we destroying ecosystems and, in effect, our very existence?

Sci & TechScience

To Webinar or Not is the Question: ‘Ritual’ and ‘Repivoting’ in the Pandemic

by Manishankar Prasad22 June 202026 June 2020 4 min read

Webinars are a good space to access thinking in terms of concepts and a dialogic arena for sparring and argumentation.

Society

Ploughing Through: How I Availed Unemployment Benefits while doing a PhD in Germany

by Jidnyasa Gujar21 June 202025 June 2020 5 min read

My dream was to finish my PhD within the three years of my contract period. Little did I know the difficulties.

EnvironmentScience

We Must Rethink the Nature-Human Relationship in a Post-Covid-19 World

by Suchitra Pandey17 June 202020 June 2020 4 min read

Seeing the increase in the number of poaching incidences during lockdown, it is clear that we have learned nothing from the pandemic.

Societyमराठी

आमच्या अंगणात कोरोनाही सुसह्य

by आरती अनिल सोहोनी15 June 202019 June 2020 4 min read

घर कुठलं, जिथं आजोबांचा खोकला, आजीची स्तोत्रं ऐकू येतायत. आईची नि सुनेची स्वयंपाकातली गडबड नि लुटुपुटुची भांडणं. एखादी लाडकी नणंद. तरुण मुलामुलींची ये जा. बाळाचं रडणं नि खेळण्याचा भरपूर पसारा.

Society

56 days as a Corona Warrior – Part II

by Raminder Singh Sokhi14 June 202017 June 2020 5 min read

We were required to be more and more careful during our food distribution rounds as the numbers of Covid-19 cases kept increasing due to people not maintaining social distancing.