Alexander Lukashenko is talking stupidity one peg at a time.
As a boy, sitting in my room overlooking the Dal through Kashmir’s many lockdowns, I rolled with laughter at the wit of Rene Goscinny and the artistic genius of Alberto Uderzo.
At Rs 1.7 lakh crore, 1.15 per cent of GDP, for 80 crore poor workers, the expenditure under the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana is inadequate to mitigate the disaster.
As the lockdown to contain Covid-19 exacerbates the economic slowdown by reducing the labour supply as well as the consumption of goods and services, the government has to address it by adopting timely relief measures.
From leprosy, yellow fever, HIV-AIDS to Covid-19, diseases have always brought out the worst in mankind: the stigmatising.
The answer could lie in smoking, spitting and not washing hands.
This is your time. Detox from the forwards, the news and your phone for half a day and make an effort to connect to whoever is in front of you, even if the only person with you is the one in the mirror.
India Today Editor-in-Chief talks about globalisation being replaced by isolationism as nations struggle to shield their populations from the dreaded Covid-19, in the April 6, 2020 edition of the India Today Magazine.
The eerie similarities between present-day events and the plot of Contagion where a virus leads to the loss of social order has expectedly renewed interest in the nine-year-old film.
The country lives from moment to moment, without forming a memory, without contemplating the past or the future.
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