A war on pandemic: Let the fight be with fairness
The Pandemic is a national issue. However, in our federal system, health care is assigned as a State matter, enabling…
People are learning to live with every messy decision.
The second wave of the Covid-19 shows how messy our healthcare systems are and how generously we play double standard…
Pandemic saga: Desperate attempt to sell old wine in a new bottle
Politicians and bureaucrats have become great fans of the highly disgusting and notorious word “lockdown“, which appeared in Maharashtra’s air again amid the “rising number” of Covid-19 cases. At the fag-end of February 2021, eleven months after the doomed lockdown was set out, the threat of a similar lockdown would only mean hell. According to Dr Giridhara Babu, an epidemiologist, “Lockdown was necessary in March 2020 as the health system had to be upgraded to ensure adequate oxygen supplies, medicines as well as human resources.” After settling everything down and people finding no difficulty even without vaccinations, we see a topsy-turvy. Roiled in the rising number of infections, some States, using their own set of rules for entry and exit of people, act like erstwhile local princely states with absolute power.
Toolkit and sedition: Gainers and losers of controversies
One may argue that the government has taken a hasty decision of arresting the environmental activists and allege the government…
The need for a new equation for inclusive growth
Covid-19 took the lives of nearly 1.9 million people in 2020, with the biggest toll reported by the US and Brazil. The year saw over 84 million people infected, while the exact number recorded in China, the epicenter was not known to the world.