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Covid-19

Lockdown Lessons from Gandhi

MJ Akbar

Finding your inner hermit

An Inheritance of Loss

The past comes calling with the return of memories of deprivation

In the Diminished Realm of the Senses

How touch, hearing, taste, smell and sight have changed in this lockdown

Letting Go

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

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

A Time for Ecosophy

The Corona Condition is a last gentle warning from the gods

Covid-19 Predictions

More than a month after the lockdown, my personal mantra is May, May, May

Coronavirus Lockdown

Different versions of the same question

Pandemic Verses

Ode to Lysol and limericks

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