If China and Italy’s experience in managing the Covid-19 outbreak is the vision of things to come, then what we would see in the coming weeks are overworked frontliners in need of technical backup. It is not just the doctors. The whole deployed government machinery would be pushed to the edge as the country shifts...Read More

As of March 25, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that 196 countries, areas and territories are affected by Covid-19. If we are to compare this number with the number of countries and territories in the world (251), then what is apparent is the fact that almost 80 per cent of the world is facing...Read More

Growing up, one of the surest ways to know that I have reached my grandparents’ house is the unmissable herd of cows and goats, and with them, the unmistakable sight of dung on the road. I remember the look on my father’s face, as we rolled through the excrement in our car. Only much later...Read More