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Switch-off Bharat

Power distracts, absolute power distracts absolutely

By R. Suryamurthy and G.S. Mudur
People carry vegetables from a wholesale market early morning during lockdown in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, April 4, 2020.

India

Centre recommends cloth face masks

By Our Special Correspondent
Virus scan
In this October 14, 2019, file photo, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo attend a news conference at MIT in Cambridge. In a discussion with each other for #readinstead Lit Fest Dialogue organised by Juggernaut Books, they highlight some of the key covid-19 questions confronting us.

Don’t think of inflation: Abhijit

By Our Bureau
Homeless people are seen wearing masks inside their makeshift homes during the nationwide lockdown, in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Chennai, Tuesday, March 31, 2020.

Face masks good for all: Govt

By Furquan Ameen
Indians line up to buy grocery during lockdown as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Monday, March 30, 2020.

Partnerships hold the key for India

By Shahid Jameel
Picture shows lanterns being cleaned in preparation of load-shedding in Calcutta in the latter half of the 20th century

Why you must not crib

By Debraj Mitra
Latest

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6 hrsKerala village downs locks

6 hrsCRPF boss, 150 officers in isolation

6 hrsCongress: Give states Rs 1 lakh crore

6 hrsFlower growers in exemption plea

Opinion
West Bengal
Calcutta
Jharkhand
Northeast
Features
Margaret Atwood
By Ian Austen/New York Times News Service
Koley market in Sealdah
Scene from Sanjay Garg’s Between.
A still from The Call of the Wild
Play Sudoku
India

Quarantine gap worry for Bihar

By Dev Raj
World

Trump undercuts message on masks

By New York Times News Service and Reuters
Entertainment

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Karan Johar would have been overseeing the release of Sooryavanshi on March 24 and Gunjan Saxena on April 24

By Bharathi S. Pradhan
Sport
Business
Culture

Virtual book tours, courtesy Atwood

By Ian Austen/New York Times News Service

Designer Sanjay Garg on narratives from the heart

By Saionee Chakraborty

Can you predict death?

By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Courses you can take online as you isolate at home

By Shrestha Saha

Resistance with the help of brush and pen

By Uddalak Mukherjee

Getting bored at home? Check out these YouTube DIY channels

By Malancha Dasgupta

Here’s what we are playing!

By Pramita Ghosh

Struggling to kill time? Listen in with these podcasts

By Shrestha Saha

Ballet, theatre and opera of our times

By Smita Tripathi

Jamini Roy, Sher-Gil at click of a mouse

By Smita Tripathi

Eyeless in water

By Manasi Shah

Boston Ice Party

By Moumita Chaudhuri

Recipes for restaurant-style dishes

By The Telegraph

A lost history of resistance from the Mughal past

By Raziuddin Aquil

Kenny Rogers's smoothness captured in an endless stream of story-songs

By Mathures Paul

Diva Dhawan: I don’t think I am ‘the diva’ that people think

By Saionee Chakraborty

The Haim sisters stayed indoors for their 2020 video The Steps

By Arindam Chatterjee

Kids home? These writers offer help

By New York Times News Service

The ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films

By Bhaswati Chakravorty

Playing to an empty theatre

By Anthony Tommasini

Benefits of almond oil on skin

By Ishrat Ansar

Your grief, my brief

By Manasi Shah

A gala Calcutta Club International Evening

By Priyanka Roy (t2 intern)

A tale of epic rumination

By Ankit Santra

At Tejaswini, 5 inspiring women tell their stories

By Kasturi Sen

It's all about sustainable fashion and art

By Hia Datta (t2 intern)

Recipe: Thandai mousse for Holi

By The Telegraph

Chic by default

By Ushnota Paul

Women of taste

By Vikas Kumar

Shabdeg: A forgotten recipe from Kashmir

By The Telegraph

In pictures
A group of migrant workers walk to their native places amid the nationwide complete lockdown, on the NH24 near Delhi-UP border in New Delhi, Friday, March 27, 2020

A neverending journey

Pianist Lukas Geniusas and cello Alexandre Bouzlov performs on a stage at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall while preparing for an online broadcast, during a rehearsal in Moscow, Russia, Saturday March 21, 2020.

The great empty

The iconic Matterhorn mountain is illuminated by Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter aiming to send messages of hope, support and solidarity to the ones sufferings from the global coronavirus disease, COVID-19, pandemic in the alpine resort of Zermatt, Switzerland, Thursday, March 26, 2020.

The world in pictures

The Naked Cowboy performs in a nearly-empty Times Square in New York City on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Deaths from the coronavirus jumped to 385 in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.

Coronavirus candids

The rising full moon crosses behind the Statue of Liberty, on Monday evening, March 9, 2020, in New York City

Worm supermoon 2020

In pictures: migrant crisis at Greece's doorstep

A group of people dressed as 'Gilles of Binche' arrive to the Grand Place to pick up their jubilee medals at the City Hall during a traditional carnival in Binche

All the world's a Carnival

US First Lady Melania Trump sits inside a classroom at Sarvodaya Co-Educational Senior Secondary School in New Delhi

Melania's happiness class

A man takes a selfie with portraits of U.S. president Donald Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi painted on a wall ahead of Trump's visit, in Ahmedabad

In Pics: Presidential visit preparations

A man snowboards down a slope overlooking Mount Yotei at a ski resort Feb. 5, 2020, in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan. “There’s a lot less snow,” said Nguyen Nguyen, a skier visiting from Hong Kong. “This is definitely the worst I’ve ever seen it.”

Snow in Sapporo