The pandemic has thrown up an economic challenge that has never been experienced in recent history. Shop floors are mostly deserted, jobs are vanishing, unemployment is rising and markets are unstable. There is no easy way out. And more and

The COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to us. It has stressed us out in a manner that we couldn’t have anticipated even a few months back before the lockdowns began in end-March. Newspapers, television and social media project this

An article in a consumer behaviour research journal has described smartphones as an “adult pacifier”. The term is catching up very fast. However, the issue goes one step further during the pandemic. With a very big percentage of the working

When it started there was a feeling that we wouldn’t be bound to our homes for very long. But we put up a brave face as the lockdowns continued. It was cooking time, sharing-of-hobbies time and learning-new-things time for some.