Long Reads

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The dark side of India’s gaming boom

10 min read . 02:22 PM IST

A medical worker tends to a patient diagnosed with covid-19 inside the intensive therapy unit (ITU) ward at the Sant Pau hospital in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Race against time to build desi ventilators

9 min read . 08 Apr 2020

Srinagar Municipal Corporation employees spray disinfectant in Dal Gate area. (Photo: Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times)

The coronavirus and surface tension

10 min read . 06 Apr 2020

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Rumble in urban India’s RWA jungle

9 min read . 03 Apr 2020

A farmer crushes his cabbage crop as there are no takers for it, in Kadoli, Karnataka, on Wednesday. (Photo: Sharanabasappa/Mint)

Corona has pushed Bharat to the brink

9 min read . 02 Apr 2020

Ola cabs in a private parking area at Horamavu Agara Hobli on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Wednesday. (Photo: Samuel Rajkumar/Mint)

How the gig economy hurts the small guy

9 min read . 02 Apr 2020

Medics, in protective suits, interact as police cordon off an area in Nizamuddin after some people showed coronavirus symptoms, in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

A 90-day action plan to beat back the virus

9 min read . 01 Apr 2020

Migrants wait to board buses to their native villages amid the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

136 million jobs at risk in post-corona India

9 min read . 31 Mar 2020

A child being tested for respiratory problems at a clinic north of Minsk, Ukraine. For more than two decades, Soviet and Ukrainian authorities maintained ‘The Exclusion Zone’ around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. (Photo: Getty Images)

Life lessons from the history of lockdowns

9 min read . 27 Mar 2020

Travellers wearing protective masks stand next to a humanoid robot at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Battling a killer bug with deep tech

9 min read . 26 Mar 2020

(From left) Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Diplomatic challenges from the Muslim world

9 min read . 25 Mar 2020

With cities being locked down and businesses being shut down, it has become difficult for daily-wage workers to live in cities. (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

How India can reboot its virus-hit economy

9 min read . 24 Mar 2020

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The murky world of India’s fintech scams

10 min read . 24 Mar 2020

A worker at Lloyd’s highly automated air-conditioner factory in Rajasthan’s Ghiloth. (Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

How Indian firms have de-risked from China

9 min read . 22 Mar 2020

CEO and MD of BSE Ashishkumar Chauhan (centre) poses for a photograph as a security personnel checks the temperature of a visitor. (Photo: ANI)

Riding out the market roller-coaster

9 min read . 19 Mar 2020

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Inside the secretive world of India’s social media content moderators

11 min read . 18 Mar 2020

RMZ Ecoworld on the Outer Ring Road at Bellandur in Bengaluru, which houses offices of leading IT firms, wears a deserted look on Monday as most companies have instructed their employees to work from home. (Photo: Raj Sam/Mint)

Why Covid-19 may alter startups forever

10 min read . 18 Mar 2020

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Case for work@home in the age of corona

9 min read . 17 Mar 2020

A make-shift barricade made by residents of gully No. 2 in Bhajanpura. The residents are now pooling resources to construct a permanent gate for more security (Photo: Pretika Khanna/Mint)

Sense of an ending on the edge of Delhi

9 min read . 15 Mar 2020

Red Cross Motor Corps volunteers on duty during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 (Photo: Getty Images)

Why 1918 matters in India’s corona war

8 min read . 13 Mar 2020

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