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The good ghost is a viral story

How little brains process the lockdown is a concern — for, a child paints an apparition as a friend as it cannot infect unlike a human being

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When the cow came home

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Online classes are only for the connected

Shayan Das Privileged students are going online for advanced courses for better prospects.

Vector men running. competition human race concept

Happy in the middle rung

Jairam N. Menon Who said the middle class doesn’t make a good story?

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Battle for survival Adjutant storks at a huge garbage dump near the Dipor Bil lake in Guwahati.

Adjutant’s last stand

Soumitra Das Chasing the stork by that name to Guwahati, one of the last havens of these birds in India

Flowers on Golden Shower Tree (Indian laburnum)

Rejuvenating spring

Latha Menon In the U.S., U.K., Europe, Asia and many parts of the world, it is spring.

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No gully game, it’s grove cricket

Hormis Tharakan It’s how many in Kerala started playing

Old Television on white. Includes Clipping Path.

The period drama on the idiot box

Television once brought together total strangers in a neighbourhood

Illustration: J.A. Premkumar

Science shines through the pandemic

It is heart-warming to notice the improved scientific temper across all social and geopolitical strata

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A time for reflection

Virus and school education

For her, it was always a lockdown

Happy in the middle rung

Online classes are only for the connected

When the cow came home

The good ghost is a viral story

How little brains process the lockdown is a concern — for, a child paints an apparition as a friend as it cannot infect unlike a human being

COVID-19 and the vulnerable

The lockdown has worsened the disadvantages already faced by migrant workers, the urban homeless and such sections

A summer flavour

There was a time when the arrival of the palm fruit vendor was eagerly awaited in Bengaluru.

How pandemics begin

There are certain striking common threads in each outbreak, with the most deadly ones being zoonotic.

The period drama on the idiot box

Television once brought together total strangers in a neighbourhood

No gully game, it’s grove cricket

It’s how many in Kerala started playing

Rejuvenating spring

In the U.S., U.K., Europe, Asia and many parts of the world, it is spring.

Adjutant’s last stand

Chasing the stork by that name to Guwahati, one of the last havens of these birds in India

Quarantine wisdom

Now is the time to pick up that paint brush, knitting needle and guitar languishing in the garage

The brighter side of the lockdown

Use this time to enjoy the present, rediscover passions, connect with nature, and value coexistence

Lockdown and the millennial mother

Millennial mothers looked at the lockdown as an opportunity to spend quality time with their children. But now, they have to manage work from home and

Collateral gains from a catastrophe

Some of our bad habits have taken a hard knock from the virus

The world brought to heel

Governments are investing billions of dollars to fight the pandemic, but the question is how does a virus cause such global disarray?

Science shines through the pandemic

It is heart-warming to notice the improved scientific temper across all social and geopolitical strata

Gags that teach us to decode life

A Chaplinesque lesson on repetitive mistakes in the time of a pandemic

Guarding against corona

Surely many must have become watchmen in the ongoing fearful times

Humanity in the grip of corona

While deadlier types of the virus have wreaked havoc on us in recent memory, none of them have achieved the kind of global superstardom as the novel coronavirus

When prevention takes a back seat

Despite the medical advances, we have failed to adopt preventive health care

The war against a virus

Survival can’t be construed as a victory, as we have to change our ways to prevent such infections

A de-cluttering emptiness

The lockdown has brought back the peace and quiet that we had lost somewhere

Undying frenzy amid lockdown

On Day One of the lockdown, I woke up early and rushed to my terrace to view the world around me. The first thing I see is two vegetable carts down

Mindful distancing

It’s possible to transform the virus-induced aloneness into an opportunity for enhanced ethics of care

The social media trap

The more you get entwined in its grip, the more difficult to extricate yourself from it

The dulled click-clack

Days have changed with the advent of computers that edit, modify, check spellings and give alternatives to what we want to write

Doctors at the vanguard

Health personnel face patients with infections every day, though many hospitals do not have adequate supply of masks and sanitisers

The memories we leave behind

Be the beloved for those around us, be the light of someone’s life

It’s in the family

Bonding in joint families has a positive impact on the emotional quotient, though not everything is hunky-dory in such a set-up

Luminous Ether

Back then, radio sets were a status symbol, owned only by the privileged

For the love of nature

How a lover of forests and wildlife instilled the passion in his children

Overhauling research in universities

Creativity and originality of thought take a beating in these institutions, affecting research

The COVID cycle

Governments have the opportunity to shore up their credibility and regain the trust of citizens

Why we lie

There are multiple reasons but generally people lie to get more of something or not to lose something

Campus capers: just for laughs and thrills

When funny pranks and youthful derring-do set a campus alive

Age is in the eye of the beholder

You are considered young or old solely on the basis of who is assessing you

O death, where is thy sting

Musings on life’s larger lesson while spending time in quarantine

Save the hugs for now

Social distancing is the new norm; hence physical demonstration of love is verboten now

Pedalling on a dream

A late entrant to the pleasures of cycling now rules the tracks like a master

Jugaad the American way

How the wife of a U.S. Ambassador and an envoy himself introduced simple techniques to help Indian workers

The searing summer

The season now is merciless because of the wanton destruction of the environment

Changing the story line

We have stories that hail vengeance but not retribution, celebrate aggression but not humility, glorify nirvana in next birth as opposed to living well

War and peace begin at home

Most films and electronic games bubble with violence and show killing as a sport

When medicine loses the healing ‘touch’

When physical examination becomes obsolete, the doctor-patient relationship sags

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