Author: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

Habitat

The pall of uncertainty about the future is persistent, and it may well be years before some assurance and confidence is restored

Covid-19 is showing that the world is in a permanent need of healing, of forgiving and being forgiven. Let the lights of Divali, which is celebrated worldwide, carry

Joe Biden is the oldest first-timer American President-elect, eventually President. His Vice-President Kamala Harris is the first woman to be ever elected to this office in the US

Social mobility can be both a boon and a bane. The choice is ours to make, and unless we make a return to at least some of the

We are being misguided by a lowly, free for all kind of politics which focuses on matters of personal behaviours and sordid details whereas we ought to be

A visit to Aapravasi Ghat should be part of routine educational tours, and so too to the Slavery Museum when it is ready. It will open many eyes

In the context of the pandemic, being old is seen as just one more comorbidity. It should not be

Politics is increasingly viewed as being prone to corruption, and another opinion I have come across is that ‘rich countries are morally bankrupt and are ruled by power

Musings

All health systems are a non-stop work in progress. We just have to go on improving across the system, from the bureaucratese to the technical. In other words,

‘Democracy and dissent go hand in hand… (But) Occupying public places like Shaheen Bagh for protests is not acceptable… Authorities have to act on their own and cannot

All of us have fond memories of the teachers who have marked out lives in more ways than one. Will this hold true in future as well?

What do we as a people desire? To live in peace or to be perpetually at each other’s throats? To sink deeper into spiralling violence or to prepare