97% of Indians Have Been Left Poorer by the Pandemic, Says Economist Mahesh Vyas
An interview with the CEO of CMIE on impact of second wave of Covid on the economy, and double digit unemployment.
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COVID-19: Like in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Indians are Going Through Nine Circles of Hell
Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.
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Mr. Modi May Continue to Rule, But Can He Govern?
Narendra Modi has burnt every bridge, antagonised every peer and decapacitated every institution which could have helped him cross the troubled waters he now has to negotiate.
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Caste, Class and India’s Covid Catastrophe
The reason for the Indian govt’s abysmal failure to tackle the second Covid wave lies in the fact that the Indian Republic – built as it is on the edifice of the British colonial state – is designed to work only on behalf of a tiny minority of Indians, leaving the vast majority to fend for themselves.
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Throughout the Pandemic, Environmental Clearance Law Has Been Under the Chopping Block
Even the global health crisis that unfolded in the past year has not deterred the current government from executing its plans for ‘ease of doing business’.
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The Hunger Pandemic
A survey conducted in October 2020 shows widespread hunger across 11 States. In the midst of the devastating second wave, immediate relief is needed.
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The Floating Dead
In a society that routinely visits abuse and punishment on those who are deemed low, would the refusal of dignity at the moment of one’s passing on leave a scar on the social conscience?
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China | COVID19 | Online Blog
Vaccines: China on the Horizon as ‘World’s Pharmacy’ + 2 Articles
While the developed world has done little to promote global vaccination, China is becoming a major supplier of covid vaccines to the developing countries following WHO’s approval to its vaccine Sinopharm; meanwhile, Modi is not willing to allow other companies to make Covishield and Covaxin – to allow their manufacturers monopoly profits.
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BJP Furious as Top Gujarati Poet Blames ‘Naked King’ Modi for Corpses Floating in the Ganga
Parul Khakkar poured out her distress in a powerful 14-line poem. Now, even as she is praised by writers and people at large for voicing the nation’s suffering, she is a target for the ruling party’s troll army.
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BJP Fired ex-Uttarakhand Chief Minister T.S. Rawat for Restricting Kumbh Gatherings
The, Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and RSS wanted the state to host a ‘bhavya’ Mahakumbh with minimal COVID-19 restrictions in place, but Chief Minister Rawat insisted on a symbolic festival, and so he was fired overnight in March 2021.
