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The travails of those who ensure food reaches our tables in Covid-19 times

A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority.

With witticisms, warnings & videos on lockdown, cops turn stars on Twitter

From being quick to quell rumours and call out fake news to using popular movie dialogues to tell people to stay in, the Mumbai Police Twitter handle has been moving at dizzying speed.

From BMW to M G Motor, auto brands shift gears on the virtual highway

Specific tailored marketing pitches using first party data, smoother payment and financing processes and digital launches are among the ways in which auto majors are keeping their brands in the game.

Stay home, stay safe: Brands try to convey message of optimism amid crisis

Advertisers ask consumers to stay calm and keep their distance, find ways to keep the engagement going under a lockdown

In this coronavirus lockdown, India feels like the calm before the storm

Strong social networks got India through the calamity of demonetisation. By not giving migrant workers enough time to get home, the govt has likely deprived them of this

So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral - gentle men of art

Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge

How Mumbai, the city that never sleeps, has been rendered somnolent

Neither rain nor riot, not even a terror attack such as the one on 26/11 or the 12 bomb blasts that ripped through it in 1993, have managed to clamp the city down. But this time the city has curled up

CHESS #1394

The Candidates tournament has been cut off due to Russia closing borders on Friday.

Since you're at home

As someone who's been operating a Small Office Home Office (SOHO) since 2002, I think I'm eminently qualified to comment on WFH

When you can't attend a performance, it comes to you: The show goes online

As the world lives out this dystopian drama - confined within the four walls of homes and isolated from spaces of art and culture - the classical and performing arts are not cut off by any means

Albert Uderzo, 92, co-creator of French comic series Asterix, dies

Uderzo created Les Éditions Albert Rene two years after Goscinny's death, after a conflict with Dargaud, the pair's original publishing house

Action replay: A jog down memory lane through some finest sporting moments

As we sit at home and miss live action, the wondrous phenomenon of sport has delivered so many past glories that we will probably never run out of things to see

The wash brigade: Inculcating a simple habit to fight coronavirus pandemic

As the world population feverishly washes hands, an initiative by a small NGO in Uttar Pradesh seems prescient

How volunteers are matching physical distancing with social solidarity

Within 24 hours of setting up a social media group and helpline called Caremongers India on March 20, Nagaraj had 150 volunteers from across India

Tour the world's finest museums and galleries from the safety of your home

It's a tug of war between Netflix (so seductive) and turning into a museum junkie

The world after Covid-19

Can we beat this virus and reclaim our world?

The global health crisis has spawned reams of poignant poetry worldwide

Poignant when set against India's orchestrated applause for health-workers, are from a poem in Chinese that has been translated into English as "Please Don't Disturb"

How Floyd Cardoz redefined Indian gastronomy in two major world cities

On March 25, chef partner of Mumbai's Bombay Canteen, who previously led the kitchen in the now-defunct New York establishment Tabla, died at 59, while being treated for coronavirus complications

The life and times of YES Bank's flamboyant and self-absorbed Rana Kapoor

The spectacular meltdown at YES Bank reveals the mental makeup of someone only too eager to walk on life's wild side

My favourite campaign is HarperCollins' short film 'The Parcel': Ferdinando

The craft is the key, but the context is everything, says Chagas Ferdinando, Senior creative director, BC Web Wise