In Retrospect - Page 19
A ticking time bomb
5 Jun 2021 8:33 PM ISTAs 'climate change' consistently keeps manifesting the worst realities, we need to adapt and find ways to mitigate the crises — but, how prepared are...
Epidemic in a pandemic
29 May 2021 5:28 PM ISTAlthough rising cases of mucormycosis are being attributed to diabetic conditions and steroid overuse, concerns around hygiene and unaffordability of...
Enigma of global governance
22 May 2021 9:06 PM ISTThe world we live in is governed by subtle entities, and the consent we hold is manufactured at their behest — a future, though dubious, may emerge...
The fiasco
15 May 2021 10:51 PM ISTIn the longer run, it is only vaccination that can save us, and we are woefully short on this front, with no signs of any succor anytime soon
Chaotic 'final' passage
8 May 2021 10:29 PM ISTEven as the deluge of corpses is testing the limits of crematoriums and cemeteries and increasing the waiting time for relatives, the authorities...
Life-saving 'social' bridge
1 May 2021 11:05 PM ISTA difference of life and death, comfort and pain, is made through the victorious efforts of compassionate beings through social media — albeit with...
Death and dereliction
24 April 2021 10:53 PM ISTAn utter failure as it should be aptly called—the system stands dwarfed at the very fronts it was expected to deliver on
Epoch-making elections
18 April 2021 12:10 AM ISTAs Bengal regains its regional identity under Mamata Banerjee to become the epicentre of the Indian economy; the opposition is going all out to reap...
'Bad master' getting worse
10 April 2021 10:18 PM ISTOnce a routine balancing factor in the ecosystem, forest fires now present a dreadful picture globally — sweeping through terrains, claiming lives...
Suez Canal crisis : Jerk in the lifeline
3 April 2021 10:48 PM ISTEven as the grounded ‘Ever Given’ was set afloat, one can go through the lanes of history to see the recent crisis from a much wider perspective;...
Let a hundred flowers bloom
27 March 2021 11:39 PM ISTThe shoots of new socio-economic reality have emerged over the past decade on the bedrock of theoretically sound Bengal model which offers space for...
Treading the tightrope
20 March 2021 10:36 PM ISTThe long-awaited ‘internet reform’ has arrived — but it should have come only after due consultations