What news may be more uplifting to a gasping COVID-19 patient than that our own Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma have just blasted sixes that carry the red cherry all the way to the crematorium, asks Badri Raina in this satirical piece

Why is the Covid doing what it is doing? What does it stand to gain? Does it know what it is doing? Does it have a brain?

Justice Ramana takes over as the chief justice of India at a time when democratic freedoms have been clamped down, indeed the right of habeas corpus itself has come to be in jeopardy

A copter flies on Mars, While the good Earth goes bust. God, give us a vaccine Against this power-lust

BJP leaders’ objections to a Muslim volunteer at a crematorium raises an interesting and devastating question

The human race is a fallen one, And cannot be improved;

Those who make objections to such private choices should come clean and acknowledge that their pleas are political rather than religious, or that religion is suffused with politics – however we deny that premise

When time and place be out of sorts, Go make your time and place

The PM had once said that the constitution is our ‘holy book’. Here’s a look at sins he should be worried about, much more than those in the Old Testament

India’s organized political formations must choose between meeting the ruling onslaught on its own anti-intellectual turf or striving to forge a politics that appeals to a dormant awareness enslaved by the fake charm of the cult