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To let people die for want of food, and air now, is tantamount to the genocides that scarred forever the 20th century. The Allahabad high court was making exactly the same point.
Even though the buck most certainly stops with Modi, there is a very real danger in blaming him alone for the devastation all around. Because if we do so, we will miss learning the critical lessons as a nation.
Indian Medical Association (IMA) president Dr J.A. Jayalal tells SabrangIndia that attacks on doctors are a big worry, as is delay of compensations to medics martyred to Covid-19, and misinformation being spread about vaccines.
Report by prominent economist Jean Dreze and Anmol Somanchi highlights the severe economic distress and food crisis suffered by a vast majority of Indian poor following the 2020 lockdown. It demands a stronger wave of relief measures to avoid a repeat of the crisis.
The government says that the economic impact from the second Covid-19 wave will be less than that of the first. But economists point to signs of a growing rural economic crisis, and call for urgent relief measures to ward off long-term damage.
The COVID-19 crisis has hit workers across the world, particularly women, who are over-represented in low-paid precarious sectors; Pandemic created ‘unparalleled’ global employment crisis, informal workers worst hit: ILO.
The only way that the coronavirus can be checked is through universal vaccination of the entire global population. What is blocking this is the intellectual property right of a few multinational drug companies. Plus: AIPSN Statement Urges Govt to Expand Public and Private Sector COVID-19 Vaccine Production.
Interview with Santos Saavedra Vásquez, the president of the National United Center of Rural and Urban Peasant Patrols of Peru, on the upcoming second round of presidential elections in Peru, and they mean for the rural, peasant and Indigenous communities of the country.
The only thing we can state with certainty is this: our understanding of the origins of Covid has been narratively managed over the past 15 months and is still being narratively managed. We are being told only what suits powerful political, scientific and commercial interests.
We are in the throes of the seventh anniversary observances of Avoidable Circumstances. Very soon, we are also going to turn seventy-five. From where and how we began and carried forth, we could have deserved better. But we get to decide what we deserve. Do we still want Coronil?
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