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Thread: I am supposed to be taking a break from regular reporting to finish up my book. But I cannot let it go when the government puts out false or

There should never have been a contempt of court case against Prashant Bhushan, a great defender of our democracy, and his conviction is a travesty. But this Re 1 fine

For @livemint, I looked at recent population projections for Indian states for the next 15 years, and I was struck by the generational divide that is coming up between India's

Here's a new problem for India's testing data: states like Delhi are conducting both RT-PCR tests and antigen tests, but reporting positive test numbers combined. Antigen tests have much more

Thread on covid mortality in India: for over a month I have been wondering about and working on the issue of 'excess mortality'. In many developed countries, estimating covid mortality

(Thread) I looked at data from 627 districts and over 1.5 lakh health facilities for the last few months and years, and what I found was very worrying. Medical services

Thread on testing and COVID-19 in India:India started with very low levels of testing, drives by a narrow testing strategy that began with a focus on symptomatic incoming travellers and