Divine Distancing

Columns

Twitter’s Convenient Truths

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why the social media platform asks for trouble in fact-checking Donald Trump

Features

Balbir Singh (1924-2020): True Legend

Lhendup G Bhutia

He was one of hockey’s greatest centre forwards

Columns

A Crisis in Search of a Character

Makarand R Paranjape

Will the Covid-19 migrant misery bring back the working-class hero?

Columns

Social Plank

Jayanta Ghosal

The Bihar CM seems to have changed tack with the onset of the pandemic and is using Facebook and Twitter to the hilt

Essay

Istanbul: Lost in Shifting Shadows

Keerthik Sasidharan

A city caught between the heretical seductions of modernity and the atavistic lures of medievalism

Cover Story

Lhendup G Bhutia with Madhavankutty Pillai

Religion makes use of technology and private space to cope with the pandemic

Features

Zooming Out

Ullekh NP

Winning back user trust is proving to be easier said than done for the video-conferencing app

Features

On a Wing and a Prayer

Nandini Nair

Living in a new normal

Columns

Aesthetics of Behaviour

MJ Akbar

Fear is both the great equaliser and an extremely effective disciplinarian

Columns

A 24×7 Nightmare

Anil Dharker

Super-Dense Crush Load

Columns

Taming the Invisible

Virendra Kapoor

The final word lies with the scientists working overtime to tame the invisible Wuhan strain