These are eye-openers on how social histories of medicine are shaping perceptions, evaluations and processes around the pandemic

The Centre can use its powers under Section 92, 100 & 102 of the Patents Act to increase production of Covid vaccines

It’s a case of misplaced optimism to expect IP waiver alone to provide quick and universal access to Covid vaccines

Indian Industry must embrace change to not just survive but to exist longer and stronger

The Prime Minister must rely on scientists and experts while making the big and non-routine decisions

To usher in true ‘poribartan’, positive intent backed by solid groundwork must form the bedrock of TMC’s development plans

Telangana has suffered enough as a region and now, as a State, it deserves its rightful equitable allocation of river waters

Setting up high-tech enterprises may be in sync with global thinking, but India lives in her informal sector

Let us rethink our bodies as chemical units, linked to other such units, all in a gigantic chemical vat

Explosion of social media has democratised opinion marketspace, a domain that was an exclusive preserve of the elite

Govt must address both demand and supply-side issues of child labour for poor children to overcome poverty trap

An integrated app where data is filled-in by patients themselves for their own reasons is needed urgently

Failure of the ever increasing technology to do anything like what was expected has felled productivity and economic growth

Quad and Quad-plus cooperation will help but only with effective management maritime system and communication

The 20th Century’s first dictatorial book must be dipped into for us to recognise the anterior moments of today’s rhetoric   

Taming cognitive biases in lending will help significantly reduce decision errors and thus NPA incidence

Intelligent machines are at the cusp of transforming human lives by fulfilling the primal need for intimacy

Strengthen journalism and put limits on public relations to stop misinformationand create a healthier media for all

Strong leadership and decentralised strategies is what we need until we can get more vaccines into people’s arms