When did doubt become this thing that plagued us? Inversely proportional to the burgeoning surety we exhibit in online forums and in offline lives. Does this surety go a long way back to childhood, before screens, the stage, the written word, does it go all the way back to song…

cognitive biases in the reporting of Covid19 — For most of my life I was the walking dead and in a way I have always lived in a post pandemic world. I had polio at six months that nearly left me paralysed. That was in 1973 and I was born in a once-remote corner of India. I am…

We made digital careers out of feeling special, then we made an infodemic. This particular pandemic shares qualities with the social media zeitgeist we live in now, it is relentlessly aspirational and self focussed, mutating, copying from its environment when necessary, ultimately lauding itself while castigating others. A pandemic cannot…