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Sunday, November 23, 2025

PoV

Hair rebellion — from Kautilya, Omar Abdullah to people in Covid lockdown

To deal with boredom, anxiety and restlessness during the Covid-19 lockdown, people are giving themselves drastic haircuts.

Indian educational institutes should break norms in Covid times, not conduct online exams

Universities like to constantly evaluate students but during the Covid crisis, they can be a little empathetic and cancel exams.

Family WhatsApp groups in Covid times are more about maida, not Modi

Earlier, political views were shared on family WhatsApp groups, but during the Covid-19 crisis, people are sharing household tips.

BJP wants us to see Indian Sonia Gandhi as Italian but Canadian Akshay Kumar as Indian

Arnab Goswami's obsession with Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Italian roots is not his alone. His supporters and many BJP leaders also can't see an Indian in her.

Class of 2020 is the unluckiest. Covid brings awkward adulting with no farewell, no jobs

For teenagers entering adulthood, end of college is always a transition period filled with mixed emotions. Covid has denied them the chance to feel all this.

Djokovic right to be anti-vaxxer. Federer or Kohli didn’t just wake up one day as champions

An athlete's career isn't just all performance. One wrong move can end a career. Novak Djokovic is well within his right to oppose mandatory Covid-19 vaccine intake.

BJP’s Tejasvi Surya is one more man who doesn’t understand the ‘orgasm gap’

The tweet by BJP MP assumes that only Arab women don’t experience orgasm while not acknowledging that women in India also rarely receive sexual pleasure

Journalists must not resist Covid test. Let’s not become the story ourselves

Journalists may have protective gear, but social distancing is an impossibility — whether we are reporting from hospitals or hostels or shelters.

Tejasvi Surya, Arvind Kejriwal, Smriti Irani learned Twitter karma can be such a glitch

Twitteratis dig out people’s old embarrassing tweets. To escape humiliation, many delete the offending post, but forget that screenshots live forever.

Indians buried even Pakistani Kargil soldiers, but now denying last rites to Covid victims

Families of a Padma Shri awardee in Punjab and two doctors in Chennai and Shillong had a traumatic time performing the last rites — as if Covid-19 has robbed us of all humanity.

On Camera

New labour codes are a simplification that’s been long overdue. Its a strategic shift

Imposition of formal rights and digital compliance mechanisms introduces new expectations for both employers and workers. This transition will require sustained awareness efforts.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas crash: Amid taunts from across border, a Pakistani pilot’s brother voices shared grief & solidarity

Speaking to ThePrint, Salman Akram urges dignity in tragedy, recalling the loss of his brother, Wing Commander Nauman Akram, in similar crash & the mockery his family faced after.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.