New Flint Knapping

From PPE kits to diagnostics, informatics and ventilators, tech start-ups have repurposed their expertise and...

Reading India’s Corona Map

With No Beds Available, Covid Patients Being Turned Away From Hospitals In Bengaluru

The previous weekend, three-fourths of Bengaluru's 1,041 Covid-dedicated hospital beds and 1,799 Covid-care...

30 Ridiculously Low Number To Look At Efficacy Of A Drug: Medicine Specialist On Biocon Trial

In an interview with Outlook, Prof O C Abraham, specialist in Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases at...

What is ICMR? The History And Geography of Disease Control

Coronavirus has put ICMR in the driver’s seat, getting both bouquets and brickbats as it guides India’s...

Can Asymptomatics Infect? Are They The Silent Carriers?

Chinese scientists said in February that the viral load detected in an asymptomatic patient was similar to...

Does India Have A Milder Epidemic? Not Really

What explains India’s low uptake initially? India’s population structure probably. Other countries have a...

Did The Lockdown Work? What Did It Do? What Would Have Happened Without It?

Questions on governance remain even as scientists estimate that the lockdown averted as many as 32,000...

Our Live-in Virus: What Does the Real Covid Map Look Like?

Corona has settled over this landmass like a moving cryptic crossword. Can we really read its clues?

Cold Coffee, Reheated

BJP Legislators' Lunch Meeting Fuels Speculations Over Stability Of Karnataka Govt

The CM shrugged off questions about the controversial linch meeting, saying that stemming the Covid-19 spread...

Riding The Rails

Karnataka’s ability to send back migrant workers hinges upon an imperfect registration process

Tales From A Leap Year

The Sisters We Forgot: Nurses Risk Their Lives To Save Ours, But Are We Grateful To Them?

In India, the public perception about nurses is still one of those who merely carry out instructions of...

Blame It On COVID-19: How Fear of Job Losses, Pay Cuts Adding To Anxiety Syndrome

With opportunities shrinking given economic conditions, 90 per cent calls from recruiters are engaging in...

Coronavirus And The Great Depression of 2020: How Mental Demons Are Adding To Life's Miseries

Besides a 50 per cent spike in distress calls from children in a 10-day period around the lockdown, there...

Quarantine Over, Is It Safe To Meet Family? To Test Or Not To Test For Coronaovirus Is The Question

India has one of the lowest COVID-19 testing rates in the world. Experts reckon testing will have to be...

Bizarre Ways Of Sanitising Migrants: Spraying Bleach, Sleeping On Banyan Trees!

Several methods are being employed to segregate migrant workers from village folks but can India’s rickety...

Rumours Of Panaceas For COVID-19 Abound, But Some Might Do More Harm Than Good

Across the world, researchers are testing several antiviral drugs for their efficacy in treating COVID-19. So...

Goliath The Germ: Where Does India Stand In Humankind's War Against Corona

Are we really at Stage 2, where only the initial incoming cases from abroad and their contacts are infected,...