The White Swan

Covid proved to be a blessing in disguise for this Kharkiv medical student

Siddharth Nambiar was to fly to Kyiv on February 25, a day after the Russian invasion began

They Have Come a Long Way

Muslim girls and women have made significant progress in education and skill development that must be protected from the noisy politics of the hijab

The Critical Insider

Writer and politician Javed Jabbar tells the tale of his tangled relations with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Benazir Bhutto

Why Did Indira Gandhi Call for Elections in January 1977?

The author, whose father HY Sharada Prasad was Information advisor to Indira Gandhi, examines the likely reasons why she relaxed the Emergency and called for elections

‘Nine-month gap for booster shot unscientific’

Indian-origin immunologist says that booster shot must be given within 5-6 months of the second shot

Age of Unreason

What Novak Djokovic’s experience says about fear and power in the time of Covid

Revisionist History

History is devoid of meaning if the context is taken out of events

In Uddhav Thackeray’s Absence

Forecast 2022