Cover Story

Letting Go

Sudeep Paul

A lifetime of saying goodbye to people and things—and there was still more to lose

We Are All Frugalwoods

Urban millennials have been forced to rediscover virtues that were the hallmark of India’s pre-liberalisation middle class

The Politics of Infection

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

The campaign against the government’s response to the pandemic has borrowed from the playbook of Chinese propaganda but has hit a wall in the trust Narendra Modi enjoys

Social Solace

V Shoba

How isolated Indians in the real world are connecting, inspiring and arguing in the virtual one

A Lone Exit

Amita Shah

The final moments of a Covid-19 patient

Lockdown Winners

Madhavankutty Pillai

The pandemic is an economic catastrophe but businesses in some sectors are doing well because isolation fuels their demand

Home Fatigue

Lhendup G Bhutia

The once attractive promise of working from home is wearing thin when put into practice

Lonely Deaths an Slow Lives

Open

The pandemic is perhaps the tipping point when it overtakes the real world of flesh and blood.

Seize the Crisis

Siddharth Singh and Ullekh NP

FDI rule changes may protect against fire sales and Chinese takeovers, but the challenge lies in attracting businesses that want to move away from China