Anindita Roy

For the last five weeks, like many others, I have been working from home, living under massive restrictions imposed to “flatten the curve” of Covid-19—which has become the public health mantra for many countries.

Do you remember the primary function of a wristwatch? It is a timepiece, which gives you the time of the day and in some cases date as well.

I was in Delhi last month, partly for work and partly to devour the winter delicacies. Lately this city has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. One of them is air pollution—both the print and electronic media emphasising once more that it had again reached hazardous levels.

Every year World AIDS Day is observed on December 1, established by the World Health Organization in 1988 to bring people together in the fight against HIV and raise awareness of the epidemic that shook the world.

Ajoy Roy, veteran leftist politician, passed away on October 17, 2016. He had actively taken part in movements opposing the British