Coronavirus

Of Saints and Pandemics

Francesca Marino

How religion fuels the fear of contagion in southern Italy

Blood Plasma Treatment for Covid-19 Ready: Kerala Doctors

Ullekh NP

Awaiting approval from ICMR; may also get Cuban wonder drug Interferon

Lockdown Woes

Rajeev Masand

There is considerable anxiety among Bollywood filmmakers, especially those who were in the midst of shooting their projects

Don’t Be Scared but Be Smart

Dr Ambrish Mithal

Corona advisory for diabetics

Tired of re-reading Camus’ The Plague and closed-room murder mysteries, or of obsessing over the novel coronavirus? These ten novels about quarantine and isolation may help get you through the lockdown—whether you are ill, retreating from the world or just brooding

Illness As Allegory

Shylashri Shankar

Pandemic thoughts after reading Mary Shelley and Albert Camus

Uncle Sam Goes Viral

James Astill

A footloose economy, decentralised democracy and an incompetent president have made America especially vulnerable

In our collective suffering and neurosis, we have become one

Rahul Pandita

A lockdown journal

‘In Kerala, the Fight against Covid-19 Is a People’s Movement’

Ullekh NP

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan strikes a balance between succour to the poor and social distancing

The Longest Walk Home

Nandini Nair

Sickness may be a great leveller but the pandemic reveals how some lives are more equal than others. Nandini Nair captures the stranded migrant labourers’ struggle for home