This evening the AIIMS Director, Dr Randeep Guleria, answered almost every question that one may have about the deadly coronavirus in about 45-minute programme on the news channel Aaj Tak. He busted many myths about the virus, shed light on vaccination, went into causes of black fungus, tried to make prediction how the future would

Every afternoon the Union Health Ministry briefs media with coronavirus update in the country. Inter alia we officially learn how many new people got infected with the virus, how many lost lives because of it and how many people got vaccinated. Switch on TV and you will get the impression that vaccination is going on

हर शाम के वक्त केन्द्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय देश में कोरोनावायरस के ताजा हालात पर मीडिया की ब्रीफिंग करता है। तमाम बातों के साथ-साथ हम जानते हैं कि कितने लोग वायरस से प्रभावित हुए, कितनों ने इसके कारण जान गंवाई और कितने लोगों का टीकाकरण हुआ। टीवी खोलें और आपको लगेगा कि टीकाकरण बहुत धीमे चल

For almost one month now open newspaper in the morning and read gory details of disease and deaths. Switch on TV, the same thing – patients gasping for breath, wailing kin, bodies strewn like hay, burning pyres, tired healthcare professionals, implementors… Pick the phone and there may be a casualty or sickness message. Early morning

Among my many childhood friends, one was Vijay Dalmia. We studied together till class X. After passing class X, I moved to Lucknow for higher education, while he stayed back in our hometown and completed class XII from the lone Intermediate college there till that time. After completing my masters and before I got my