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Vinisha’s solar-powered ironing cart

Vinisha Umashankar, a student innovator turned environmentalist from Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, has been selected as a “change-maker” and Baton-bearer for the ongoing 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay in India. The young innovator and fledgling environmentalist Ms Vinisha has been an inspiration for many. The 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay started at the Buckingham […]

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Third Wave: Labourers are safe

Once-bitten twice-shy about wrong propaganda. The Central government seems to have taken special care of the migrant labourers, who may move homewards as the third wave of the pandemic is sweeping in metros. But there is no such movement this time. In March 2020, the media had amplified the migrant labourers’ homeward journey after their […]

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The end of pandemic fuss

The samovar of the pandemic is running dry. All healthy and sick persons in urban centres have suffered from fever. Omicron has been more democratic. But the massive preparation with billions of rupees aside to fight the third Covid-19 war is drawing its end. By mid-February, the two-year pandemic will end to be endemic with […]

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Time: Who rules it?

Time runs on an equation set by the human world. Today it is fundamental to everything – science, calculation, age of mortal and immortal things. It is notional and illusionary reoriented with the logic of ancient civilisations. And it is on this inexplicable wonder the human world runs and changes the calendar.    The concept […]

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Omicron propaganda and public misery

People are not so afraid of the pandemic. They are scared of the curbs and lockdowns, which are unequivocally life-threatening. People are not so afraid of the infection. But they are scared of the horrendous treatments and cost of hospitalisation.  The third wave never happened as the government warned and the public feared. Massive preparations […]

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