deaths

Death by Shame

S Prasannarajan

Is it shame that killed VG Siddhartha and Jeffrey Epstein, the good billionaire and the bad billionaire? They reached the summit only to be pushed into the abyss by shame

Death Race to The Peak

Lhendup G Bhutia

Indians make for the largest group of climbers on Mount Everest now, contributing to the overcrowding that is leading to increasing fatalities

From 10,000 to 41

Madhavankutty Pillai

Odisha’s success at saving lives during cyclones

Colour of Terror

Stephen David

White racists and their black deeds

The Aborted Clause

Ullekh NP

The likely exclusion of a crucial amendment to India’s abortion law highlights official apathy towards women’s reproductive rights

The Virus That Killed 18 Million Indians

Madhavankutty Pillai

Exactly a 100 years ago, a ship returning with World War I soldiers unleashed the Spanish Flu in India. The worst pandemic in human history is strangely unremembered

Ecological Lessons

S Gopikrishna Warrier

It's time for introspection

The River Never Forgets

MG Radhakrishnan

We ignored the warnings of both history and geography

Horror and Heroism

Shahina KK

Coping with the worst tragedy in memory

When the monster rains came, like any other place faced with the sudden ferocity of nature, Kerala was not prepared, and as the water level rose to fatal heights there were not enough streets or shelters left for the displaced and the dying to keep them safe. The water has begun to recede, but not the woes of a shattered people