The Future of Work
Three-part article on the future of work since the pandemic slump: Remote Working; Working Long and Hard; and Automation.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Employment | Indian Economy | Inflation | Poverty | Print Edition
Lies, Despair and a Grotesque Inequality Plagues Indian Economy Today
The government claims that India is on its way to becoming the fastest growing major economy in the world. It has based these claims on manipulative use of data to project a rosy picture. But there are other data sets that run contrary to the government’s claims, ones the govt doesn’t talk about.
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COVID19 | Online Blog | USA
Why the U.S. Failed to Control COVID-19: Incompetence, Class Violence, Deception, and Lies
The United States is one of the worst countries in the world at controlling COVID-19, which has claimed more than one million American lives, and also caused enormous social and economic devastation in the country. This article examines the impact of U.S. anti-COVID policy.
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The Inequality Pandemic
Excerpts from a briefing paper published in May 2022 by Oxfam International: More billionaires, more extreme poverty. Global inequality has skyrocketed since Covid began.
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China | COVID19 | Online Blog
Life on Lockdown in China
Peter Hessler penned this article after having spent 45 days in lockdown in the province of Chengdu in China in February-March 2020. It was published in the ‘New Yorker’ on March 30, 2020.
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A Mess Called India’s Health Sector
India’s health sector is beset with too many problems most of which can be traced to inadequate funding. Poor funding has led to poor capacity and poor quality of healthcare.
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Shanghai Reopens After Suppressing COVID: A Triumph for Science and Public Health
China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization.
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A Fact-Check of Every Claim Made by India to Dispute WHO’s Estimate of its Covid-19 Deaths
Most arguments put forth by the government and its functionaries don’t hold water.
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The Kala Pani Migration: An Indian Story That’s Hardly Discussed in India
When used in the diaspora, ‘Kala Pani’ refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | India | Online Blog | Privatization | Science
Gutting India’s Public Sector Vaccine Makers
India’s once-thriving public vaccine manufacturers were absent during the pandemic. This was not due to a lack of capability. The problem has been active neglect by the government.
