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SubscriberWrites: How Covid increased malnutrition, especially in children, and is crisis of the future

Whether we win or lose the war against Covid, we risk losing children to acute malnutrition, diarrhea, pneumonia and other illnesses, writes Rajpal Bijarnia.

SubscriberWrites: The Indian mask at half mast & why the new age Brahmadanda is `don’t make it political’

Why we need to be more political, how elitism is the biggest threat to illiberal democracies & more our readers.

SubscriberWrites: Catches win more than matches in cricket — one helped free South Africa from apartheid

Vishwas Sinha recalls how missed chances could have been a game-changer for Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Rohit Sharma.

SubscriberWrites: Organic food is not healthier for you or for animals & nature – just far more expensive

It’s a fad for the woke generation but something the poor and needy do not have the luxury to enjoy, writes Hindol Roy.

SubscriberWrites: UP elections 2022: Development or Covid resentment, the coming polls could give BJP a scare

The second wave of the pandemic has altered the political grammar of Uttar Pradesh but caste arithmetic is still the deciding factor, believes Nischai Vats.

SubscriberWrites: Hitchhiker’s Guide to consuming politics: Quit the ‘echo chamber’, listen to the other side

To overcome political biases, avoid social media and trust good journalism, Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan says

SubscriberWrites: Why Nitin Gadkari should lead Covid battle after ‘failed autocratic governance’ of Modi-Shah

Harish Anil Jamakhandi has a few other suggestions for better management of the pandemic by the government.

We are ‘mere votes’ and politicians are ‘vultures’ — time to stop them trampling on our dreams

In this searing criticism of politicians and the ruling class, Bindu Sikand urges Indians to stand up to those in power and remind them that they exist because of us.

SubscriberWrites: If India’s Covid crisis occurred in Pakistan, here’s what we would have thought of Imran Khan

Place Pakistan’s PM in Modi’s shoes to assess him, consider if patent protection is evil & open letter to leaders by a worried citizen – subscribers assess India’s pandemic response.

SubscriberWrites: Expression of dissent cannot occur on the streets of Delhi but in the voting booth

For Anmol Singhal, protests in Parliament or against government policy like the farm laws, cause civil inconvenience and undermine democracy.

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Being Dalit on a dating app. Upper caste men only want to argue over reservation, EWS

My Instagram bio reads ‘Namasudra Dalit, West Bengal’. But around 10 men – whom I had added from dating apps – unfollowed and blocked me after learning about my identity.

Indian airlines are on path to capture 50% of market for international travel to & from the country

Adding new routes and more aircraft, Indian airlines are now looking to cash in on the post-pandemic surge in international travellers.

Retired Indian Army Colonel working with UN killed in Rafah, Israel orders probe

Eight months into the war, this is believed to be the first 'international' casualty to be reported. 46-year-old Waibhav Kale joined UNDSS two months ago ‘to make a difference’. 

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.