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Flawed strategy
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24-04-2020
23 STORIES
Interview: David Quammen
David Quammen: Pandemics are inevitable and costly
An interview with David Quammen, author of “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”.
Prejudice against north-eastern region of India
Virus of racism
Racist prejudices against people from the north-eastern region in India come to the surface in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Inadequacy of public health system
Stung by scarcity
As the Indian health-care system is up against many odds in its struggle against COVID-19 with shortage of health care professionals, protective gear
Enforced isolation and mental health
Mental health concerns
“Social distancing” is the antithesis of all that is considered therapeutic in mental health. Enforced isolation deprives human beings of social conta
Legislative framework
Abdicating responsibilty
The Centre seeks to acquire disproportionate powers by using a PIL petition in order to silence criticism of the way it has handled the crisis.
Unorganised sector
Left high and dry
The nationwide lockdown dealt a death blow to the livelihoods of lakhs of already beleaguered workers in the unorganised sector. Even as an exodus of
Plight of migrant workers
Marooned in the city
The lockdown has only exposed the existing problem of the devalued and invisibilised labour of 100 million internal migrant workers and an economy tha
Impact on the marginalised
Double distress
The Central government announced the lockdown abruptly and with apparently no thought for how India’s millions of vulnerable and socially excluded peo
Books
Economic responses to COVID-19
The two collections of articles represent a leftward shift of economic orthodoxy, with a recognition of the need for state expenditure on public healt
Government failure
Test not, find not
The government’s failure to detect, trace and isolate infected persons in the nearly two-month-long window of opportunity it had to protect people fro
Economic impact
Economy in deep freeze
The Indian government has failed not only to address the health emergency posed by the virus but address the cataclysmic impact it would have on lives
Lead Story
Chasing the virus
While COVID-19’s onslaught has laid low the mighty United States and much of the developed world, in India there are differing perceptions on the 21-d
Cuba's role
Cuba to the rescue
Cuba, which dispatched expert medical teams to over 59 COVID-19 affected countries, has come in for praise from the world over for its timely act of i
Relief package
Economic policy: Conservatism rules
The inadequate “relief” package and the emphasis on monetary policy to mitigate the effects of the virus-induced shock indicate that making the necess
Interview: Dr Naman Shah
‘Regional lockdowns would have been better’
Interview with Dr Naman Shah, infectious disease epidemiologist.
Books
Glimpses of past glory
A comprehensive book with a set of guided walks, vintage photographs, old maps and generous trivia on Bengaluru’s heritage.
Government's response to the pandemic
Symbolism vs substance
The Prime Minister’s histrionics do not make up for his government’s failure to respond effectively and in time to the COVID-19 crisis.
Global response
Differing approaches
COVID-19 is stretching health care systems across the world, but the international community has not been able to get its act together so far to come
Controversy
CJI Ranjan Gogoi's nomination to the Rajya Sabha: More than a sinecure
The nomination of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha within four months of his superannuation from the Supreme Court smacks of an unabashed bo
Politics
Questionable verdicts by the SC in judgments over defection
The Supreme Court’s inconsistency in judgments over defections in many States erodes the credibility of the judiciary.
Kashmir
Chastened rivals
The release of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah after prolonged detention points to a rethink and modified strategy on the part of the government and
Lead Story
Announcement
Controversy
Shaheen Bagh protesters: Showing the way
The Shaheen Bagh protesters departed from their now iconic sit-in site in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, but not before they overturned several ster
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Uttarakhand: High fives may not happen this time
History does not agree with the BJP on Katchatheevu
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Kashmir: Valley of contention
Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
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Farewell Appappan
Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk
India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
The crisis of the secular opposition
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Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
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