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Covid-19: Why has India had a spike in stillbirths?
India was making significant progress in reducing its stillbirth rate. But then covid-19 hit.
‘It is my love for the people of this country’
Good memories. And bad. Difficult moments. And memorable ones. Trade union leader, activist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj has gathered them all in her challenging walk through Life.
‘The State snatched away my time with my daughter’
Potlis in prison? Creativity, says Sudha Bharadwaj, is a vital lifeline for those who find their freedom taken away for crimes they may, or may not, have committed
‘My greatest strength were prison inmates’
When you look at the picture above, at the smile that illuminates Sudha Bharadwaj's face, you cannot help but marvel at her quiet strength
‘I was imprisoned in the phansi yard’
After she was arrested in 2018, Ramachandra Guha, the historian and Gandhi's biographer, was in no doubt that the Mahatma would have donned his lawyer's robes and defended Bharadwaj, the IIT-Delhi alumnus who has spent her life defending…
Kabuliwalli: For a journo, how much ‘beyond’ is ‘beyond the call of duty’?
The desperate scenes in Afghanistan have dredged up memories of the two Kabuliwallas of my childhood.
COVID diplomacy 2.0, a different order of tasks
Indian diplomacy will have to handle the fallout of the vaccine collapse and bio-research regulations
As the Gujarat Govt Downplays COVID-19 Crisis, People Suffer in Silence
All is officially well in India’s ‘model’ state, although those on the ground note convoys of ambulances at hospital gates, 12-hour waitlists at crematoria, eight-hour waits in queue for antiviral drugs and scams in the name of the virus.
SAWM in solidarity, hails Ramani acquittal, endorses Iwpc statement
The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) is delighted to welcome the court verdict declaring the former journalist Priya Ramani not guilty of defaming former Union minister M J Akbar, whom she had accused of sexual harassment.
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Reclaiming SAARC from the ashes of 2020
Despite the despondency, the rationale for its existence is intact, and India can use it as a stage for its global ambitions