At the time of writing this piece one is baffled by the shutting down of The Shillong Times for the second day. For an editor, the newspaper is a baby that needs to be born every day. To not be allowed to bring out the publication simply because two machine men have tested positive and duly quarantined is too stiff a punishment. But that’s the price that COVID has extracted from a publication that has been reporting extensively on how the coronavirus pandemic is being managed in Meghalaya, what the gaping lapses are and the. . .
