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Smruti Koppikar

ARTICLES BY SMRUTI KOPPIKAR

In a survey that the Indian Journal of Psychiatry conducted last year, nearly 48% respondents showed anxiety or depression and 74% showed moderate stress.

Grief, fear, anger in covid country

9 min read . 26 Apr 2021

Some of Mumbai’s spiffiest addresses such as Pedder Road, Nepean Sea Road, Altamount Road and Breach Candy are in D ward. It has a higher growth rate of cases than the city’s average and the second-highest number of sealed buildings or floors.pti

Inside Maximum City’s mysterious surge

9 min read . 20 Apr 2021

It would be naïve to believe that extortion will end with a change of government. The last 30 years have seen governments of all ideologies except the Left in Maharashtra. The extortion economy did not suffer. (Photo: Reuters)

Inside Mumbai’s new extortion economy

10 min read . 01 Apr 2021

Dadar station no longer has the highest footfalls. Living without its lifeline has put the focus back on Mumbai’s road transport, persuading transport policy wonks to revise their perceptions of Mumbai’s north-south commute axis.

Why Mumbai’s mojo lies beyond its locals

9 min read . 15 Feb 2021

Uddhav Thackeray is prodding his party of belligerence and nativism towards reason and inclusivity, save the occasional dial-back to Hindutva. (Photo: HT)

How Uddhav Thackeray is becoming a man for all seasons

9 min read . 26 Nov 2020

Think of us as citizens and working women, not your relatives. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

It’s 2020: The idea of menstrual leave is long overdue

4 min read . 20 Aug 2020

Parallel to the urban economy is urban design which, too, will see changes as Mumbai reopens (Photo: Aalok Soni/Hindustan Times)

A battered Mumbai is trying to regain its mojo

9 min read . 03 Jun 2020

Barricades are seen at Khadki Cantonment in Pune after seven family members of a covid-19 patient also tested positive. (PTI)

Pune’s harsh covid strategy rubs people the wrong way

2 min read . 23 Apr 2020

Workers rest in a workshop. ( Satish Bate/HT)

Dharavi’s economy goes down the tubes

9 min read . 18 Apr 2020

The PCMC micromanaged the lockdown with officials breaking up into groups to curb the spread of the virus.. (Photo: HT)

This city offers clues to the future of India’s virus battle

2 min read . 06 Apr 2020

NCP’s Chhagan Bhujbal is greeted by industrialist Mukesh Ambani, along with wife Nita and son Anant, at the swearing-in of the Maharashtra government at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. (PTI)

Business as unusual: Mumbai and new regime

10 min read . 03 Dec 2019

With the BJP falling way short of the majority mark on its own in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has a belligerent ally and a resurgent opposition waiting for him.

Reality check for the Fadnavis formula

9 min read . 24 Oct 2019

The stage is set for Aaditya Thackeray’s win from Worli unless the Nationalist Congress Party’s Suresh Mane, a veteran social activist, pulls off an upset. ( Photo: Hindustan Times)

Shiv Sena 3.0: Living on a prayer

10 min read . 16 Oct 2019

Over the past three decades, Sharad Pawar has become the symbol of Maharashtra’s co-operative political economy (Photo: PTI)

Game of thrones in co-op politics

9 min read . 29 Sept 2019

Across Mumbai’s by-lanes in Dharavi, Kurla, Koliwada, Bandra East and West where TikTok users abound, the members of Team 07 (in inset) are spoken of with the same reverence as film stars. ( Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

Turmoil inside the world of TikTok stars

10 min read . 01 Aug 2019

Raj Thackeray was deep in love with PM Modi and the “Gujarat model” through 2013-14. However, the unalloyed bhakt has turned a ferocious antagonist, a hard-hitting challenger

The sudden revival of Raj Thackeray

9 min read . 22 Apr 2019

The spot in Badwar Park, the fishing hamlet in South Mumbai, where the 10 terrorists landed on 26 November 2008. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

26/11 anniversary: Why security remains a Mumbai state of mind

9 min read . 27 Nov 2018

Author Urmila Pawar. Photo: Pradip Das/The Indian Express Archive

A brief history of the Dalit memoir

7 min read . 25 Apr 2015