Life at risk
What you read in the headlines is scary enough. But some incidents that you learn about in personal encounters can be devastating. And I am talking about the surge in…
Life at risk
What you read in the headlines is scary enough. But some incidents that you learn about in personal encounters can be devastating. And I am talking about the surge in…
A sense of history would help
INDIA’S fabled constitution is struggling with a very Indian flaw. It has too many filters to stop it from choking. The preamble promises a secular socialist democracy. Many are openly…
Health threats in 2023
Vector-borne diseases transmitted by insects and ticks posed public health threats in 2023. Diseases like malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease continued to impact communities around…
What we must fight for
In the midst of this polycrisis for the ages, it is not difficult to enumerate all the things that are going badly and everything that is wrong. There is a…
Intricate diplomacy
THE Russian Federation’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is today one of the longest-serving foreign ministers. In addition to his long tenure in the foreign office, he has served as Russia’s…
Biden seeks to turn debacle in Afghanistan to victory at home
The US pullout from the Pentagon’s once mighty Bagram Air Base in the dead of night, while Taliban fighters pour across the country, looks a lot like a military defeat.…
Do vaccinated people need to go back to masking?
With the Delta variant pushing US Covid cases back up, fully vaccinated people are wondering whether they need to start masking indoors again. Covid vaccines remain extremely effective against the…
Climate chaos
Our son was born just after midnight on New Year’s Day, in the middle of a blizzard and at the apex of a plague. We jokingly call him Kyber Chaosborn,…
Corporate impunity
The Covid-19 pandemic has once again exposed the fragility of global supply chains and business models built on non-standard forms of employment and informality. Following the global drop in demand…
