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With Rahul Gandhi failing to bat for the youth in the party, Scindia's exit points to a larger battle within the Congress

DISTANT DIPLOMACY

Namaste is the flavour of the season, especially in Delhi’s diplomatic circles. The reason: Covid-19. Handshakes are avoided and diplomatic missions have issued guidelines to employees to avoid cheek kissing and to stay at home in case of a flu. At the International Womens’ Day celebration at the Dutch embassy, the deputy chief of mission, Anneke Adema, had the namaste down pat— each guest was greeted with one. Just for good measure, the embassy gave gifts to the attendees tiny wooden clogs and a small bottle of sanitiser.

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Caught in a loop

A mother awaits justice for her gang-raped daughter; two others pray for relief for their convicted sons... the prolonged wait of three families bound by a heinous crime.

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State of apathy

With promises made to Nirbhaya’s family unkept, her ancestral village lies neglected

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EXIT WOUND

MORE THAN THE POWER TUSSLE IN MADHYA PRADESH, IT WAS THE BREAKDOWN OF TRUST BETWEEN HIM AND RAHUL GANDHI THAT LED TO JYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA’S EXIT. WITH THE OLD GUARD STILL CALLING THE SHOTS AND RAHUL BEING “UNRESPONSIVE”, A FEW MORE CONGRESS LEADERS MIGHT FOLLOW IN SCINDIA’S FOOTSTEPS.

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Leadership vacuum, not crisis

Democratically electing a full-time party president could help change public perception of the Congress

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Taking Gwalior

How a former banker and a royal relative persuaded Jyotiraditya Scindia to jump ship

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Rebel prince

Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh and the high command are equally responsible for Scindia’s exit

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Tale of two heads

Two Lingayat mutts set the stage for a social revolution by naming a Muslim man and an OBC woman as pontiffs

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Rebalancing act

How to strategise your debt portfolio in the current economic scenario

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Eat, pray, dance

Author Elizabeth Gilbert on how to love and groove in these uncertain times

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Distilliing heritage

Meet the Goa-based entrepreneur who is reimagining everything from tequila to mahua

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At least a year until a vaccine is ready, but no guarantee

Dr Tom Frieden is former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. He is currently president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global nonprofit working on preventing epidemics and cardiovascular diseases. On March 10, he wrote about the worst case scenario in Covid-19—it could kill up to 10 lakh people in the US. In an exclusive interview to THE WEEK, Frieden discussed how little experts know about the virus, the uncertainty of drug treatments and vaccines and how vulnerable the world is to such epidemics.

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