Vaccinating all Indians, for free

India has started vaccinating citizens against Covid-19. As more people get vaccinated, we can slowly start to shed our fears and masks and return to a more normal life. ...

Covid-19 highlighted the ‘the tyranny of experts’

Ideas and opinions play an inordinately important role in a liberal democracy and should flourish freely. But the weight of such ideas and opinions rise only when incentives are aligned and symmetrical ...

India has a guns, germs and steel crisis. But India Inc rather stay silent

India Inc praised Rajiv Bajaj in private for speaking up, but chose to incur losses for three full months than criticise the Modi government for its lockdown. ...

The Story of India’s Lockdowns

Lockdown 3.0 will end soon but the questions of people are endless. Will the PM address the nation to explain what happens after May 17th? Or will he silently issue another order? ...

Learning to live with coronavirus

To exit the lockdown or not, that is the question” — William Shakespeare’s paraphrased poem best captures the nation’s dilemma. ...

Extreme lockdown was an immediate response, its now clear that the cure is worse than the disease

The under-privileged are bearing the brunt of this — ostracisation, lack of hospital care, loss of wages, homelessness, hunger etc., says Praveen Chakravarty ...