Analysis
The party-spirited cricket World Cup
Sharda Ugra's essay and the BCCI-BJP combine's presumption of zero resistance at the ICC Cricket World Cup
Amit Shah
Op-eds
Dehumanising language during an outbreak
It appears the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has begun local transmission in India, i.e. infecting more people within the country instead of each new patient having recently travelled to an already affected country. The advent of local transmission is an important event in the lexicon of epidemics and pandemics because, at
Scicomm
The simple tech that can pierce the Kashmir blackout
On August 15, AFP reported that the BBC plans to expand its shortwave radio coverage in Kashmir “to ease the impact of a communications blackout imposed by the Centre”. The report added that “short wave transmissions travel thousands of miles and are able to bounce over mountains that dominate the