Mourning comes after we feel the tangibility of the loss. Its absence, or the inability to come face-to-face with the dead, only deepens the void in the heart. What we are left with is an abyss that sucks us into disbelief and shock and uncertainty, writes Qadri Inzamam.

Countrywide, the Covid-19 toll is mounting. The denouement seems nowhere near yet. Did the government bungle it all? Should we have been wiser?While these questions now rankle and haunt, I see this shaitaan virus having the last laugh.

Of all its decades, 1990s do appear to be replete with run-of-the-mill movies, with least number of all-time classics. It is amply illustrated by the fact that most of the favourite films chosen by the stars are in the range of mediocre-to-above average category, writes Giridhar Jha.

The COVID-19 pandemic has suspended all live tennis but both ATP and WTA are contemplating a merger as the sport needs to survive and women seek better recognition and pay

A retired IPS officer writes about how his excitement to do the household chores after retirement -- and during the lockdown -- failed to convince his wife to let him giver her a helping hand.

I feel like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day where characters are caught in a time loop, repeatedly reliving the same day and no one but only Murray knows about it.

Chuni Goswami was charismatic and carried himself like a prince in public life, writes Supriyo Goswami

As we, the everyday citizens, bunker in the confines of home, chased by an invisible enemy, for all of us, suddenly, there are new heroes to applaud.

The government's coronavirus helpline service was unresponsive. Boorish behaviour by a doctor only increased my anxiety levels, writes Outlook journalist Neelav Chakravarti

As I become the owner of my time and my space, I feel that time is gradually shifting from a linear dimension that would forever be ticking away to a circular pattern

There is no easy way to move forward through all of this except moving...If we are in a great dissolution of the known world, let us meet it in a chorus of love.

The West may have discovered Dalgona coffee now cooped up inside their homes, but I can vouch it was invented in the summer of 1996 in Delhi.