Bhavdeep Kang

With the uncertainty not seeking to settle any time soon, “learned helplessness” sets in among the youth.

For the Congress leadership, he was a veritable 'Rao Rao Rasputin'.

Suicide seems irrational, inexplicable, illogical. We are wired to look for meaning, because without it, there is only chaos.

A politically-led response may have proved more effective than a bureaucratic approach, which perceived the pandemic purely as a health c...Read More

Every government was caught unawares

The long-term agricultural reforms — putting an end to the monopoly exercised by the APMC over trade, dilution of the Essential Commoditi...Read More

As states outdo each other in acquiring land banks for industrial use, forcible expropriation and its deleterious impact on farmers and f...Read More

BJP and RSS' call for communal harmony is being misconstrued to be damage-control. Action is key. Cracking down upon any violation of hum...Read More

China's role in the coronavirus pandemic has come in for intense criticism. Setting aside conspiracy theories of weaponised superbugs coo...Read More

The Centre is now seriously considering an extension of the lockdown, following a demand from the state governments.

The pattern of the COVID-19 pandemic follows the logic of globalisation: the regions most affected are the ones which dominate global exc...Read More

More shocking (to his former colleagues) than the fact that he was offered the seat, is the fact that he accepted it.

The Congress has been unwilling to suggest a replacement since Rahul Gandhi stepped down after the Lok Sabha debacle. While Sonia Gandhi ...Read More