Happy to be Part of Clinical Trials But Won’t Take Covaxin as a Vaccine: Gagandeep Kang
One of India’s top vaccine experts discusses her concerns regarding the manner in which Covaxin and Covishield have been approved for restricted emergency use.
Concern Over Emergency Use Approval to Vaccine Candidates: Two Statements
Appeal to the DCGI to reconsider the recommendations of the SEC in granting the REU approval to Covaxin.
Government’s Timidity in Handling Fiscal Deficit Post- Pandemic has Added to Workers Woes
The government did not give out relief packages in order to avoid stretching beyond its fiscal deficit limit, because it would have been frowned upon by global finance.
Ambedkar Felt Nobody Could be as Disdainful of the Legislature as the British. Modi Proved Him Wrong
By cancelling the winter session of the Parliament, the Modi government has yet again undercut the legislature and the deliberative process of law-making.
The Trials and Tribulations of Being a Muslim in Today’s India
The author writes: This article is not about any religion, organisation, political party or government as they are all ephemeral. It is about our people who are enduring. I lament that the venom of hatred has become the lifeblood coursing through the veins of our body politic.
SC Order on Shaheen Bagh Protest Introduced Dangerous Constitutional Ideas
Is there something inevitable in the form in which we have conceived of liberal democracy that it will, more and more, construe the dissenter as a figure of criminality?
Yemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis and the Complicity of Imperialists – Two Articles
As long as the US and UK continue their political and military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, there will be no solution to the country’s humanitarian or political situation. Also: Not just to Yemen, the US controls half the arms market in the Middle East.
The Geo-Politics of EU-China Investment Deal
The EU-China investment deal is as much rooted in China’s own urge to expand as in the EU’s own growing search for its own place, independent of the USA.
Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters Struck U.S. in 2020
In 2020 the U.S. experienced a record-smashing 22 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that killed at least 262 people and injured scores more.
Changing Political Scenarios: a Conversation with Marco Teruggi
Examining both continental geopolitics and the dynamic of regional social movements, Teruggi – a prominent journalist – offers a rich interpretation of Venezuela’s recent electoral process.