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What History Can Teach Us About Jawaharlal Nehru that WhatsApp Forwards Cannot

There are many today who seem all too willing to hold Panditji guilty for all of life’s ills. But Jawaharlal Nehru is a man who escapes easy definition, and perhaps strove to definitively remain just that — a man; not a saint, nor a saviour, and not in the very least, a self-appointed chowkidar.

Indranil Datta June 18, 2016

Coronavirus

Suspect Thy Neighbour: Coronavirus Fears Are Turning People Next-Door Against Each Other

The WhatsApp mob is especially active now that we are in the grip of Covid-19. Neighbours are turning against each other. People living in the same area as a 22-year-old Ahmedabad patient, ravaged her social media profiles and circulated her photos. A Chinese man in Greater Noida feared being lynched.

Runa Mukherjee June 17, 2016

Modern Family

The Parents Are Not Alright: I Can’t Stop Worrying About My Ageing Folks in This Pandemic

Living in another city, stuck in a pandemic, I worry about my parents a lot. When I reached home, I was appalled by their laxity: Nothing that came from the market was sanitised, masks were has-been entities, and there was a single 50ml sanitiser bottle under one roof. How do we tell our parents to be more cautious?

Manik Sharma May 3, 2016

POV

What I Learnt From My Uncle’s Psychic WhatsApp Forwards

Recently, an elderly relative took it upon himself to personally message me a “quote of the day” every morning. Soon I started to notice a strange coincidence. All these quotes started magically reflecting exactly what was on my mind at the time.

Radhika Oltikar April 12, 2016