Liberalisation of economy Deregulation: Licence to Loot Raj V. SridharThe story of India’s liberalisation drive is the incessant push towards deregulation and privatisation, which has promoted the growth of monopolies, o
Interview: Dr Chandrakant Lahariya Dr Chandrakant Lahariya: ‘India’s Covid vaccination drive has been underwhelming’V. SridharInterview with Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, epidemiologist and public health expert.
COVID-19 India impossibly short of vaccinating its entire adult population against COVID-19 by the end of 2021V. SridharIndia’s vaccination drive rests on a wing and a prayer as it looks set to miss the target of vaccinating all adults by the end of the year.
Privatisation Modi government's decision to privatise United India Insurance indicates terrible consequences for general insurance sector V. SridharThe Modi government’s move to privatise a public sector general insurance company, threatens to undo years of progress that nationalisation initiated
COVID-19 Dismantling regulatory mechanisms governing vaccines V. SridharHaving blundered on the COVID-19 vaccine front, the Narendra Modi government now appears to be pandering to the demands of the vaccine multinationals.
Eminent scientists, doctors, researchers and activists demand quick revival of PSUs to spur India’s slackening vaccine drive V. SridharMore than 200 eminent scientists, doctors, academics and health activists demanded on June 1 that the Union government “urgently expand” national capa
Interview: Dr Hemanth Nandigala Dr Hemanth Nandigala: ‘You cannot quicken the process of manufacturing vaccines too much’V. SridharInterview with Dr Hemanth Nandigala, managing director, Virchow Biotech Private Limited.
COVID-19 COVID-19: Vaccine follies V. SridharThe Indian COVID-19 vaccine story is a string of missteps based on the Modi government’s exaggerated claims of exceptionalism, grounded in voodoo noti
Interview: Dr Satyajit Rath ‘India needs to spread its bets on vaccines’: Dr Satyajit RathV. SridharInterview with Dr Satyajit Rath, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
INTERVIEW: Dipankar Mukherjee 'The hike is against assurance to Parliament'V. SridharInterview with Dipankar Mukherjee, CPI(M) MP. Published in the issue dated July 29, 2005.
Cover Story: COVID-19 Second Wave India’s gigantic death toll due to COVID-19 is thrice the official numbersV. SridharSome seven million people worldwide have died in the pandemic, almost double the official reports. More than 6.5 lakh Indians, not the 2.25 lakh repor
COVID-19 Second Wave The fiasco that is India’s COVID-19 vaccine policy V. SridharThe Modi government’s decision to deregulate vaccine procurement and deliveries, just as the vaccine rollout runs into a supply constraint, threatens
A new phase of censorship creep in India A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
