Social Distancing a Luxury, Lockdown a Challenge in Dharavi
Bagwan takes us through the trials and tribulations of people in her neighbourhood, that has become one of the largest containment zones for Covid-19 in Mumbai.
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Bagwan takes us through the trials and tribulations of people in her neighbourhood, that has become one of the largest containment zones for Covid-19 in Mumbai.
If there is one thing we’ve learned about Modi, it is that he never learns from his mistakes. The current crisis is the product of his cult of personality and the only response he is capable of is to double down on his worst impulses.
The government is using the lockdown as an opportunity to clear many controversial projects, one such being the Central Vista Project. Despite its wastefulness, Modi is bent on promoting it as it fulfills a key RSS agenda.
While the government is trying to play down the economic loss due to the pandemic, it is certain that the economy will shrink sizeably in 2020-21.
Which other government would have passed off a slew of concessions to foreign and domestic monopolists as a “rescue package” for the people of the country?
If there is no additional borrowing, there can be no additional expenditure and, logically, no fiscal stimulus. Direct fiscal stimulus from the Centre will only be a little over 1% of India’s GDP, not 10% as projected by PM Modi. Three articles.
Today, the questions of citizenship and alleged ‘infiltration’ are the topic of debate everywhere; the real question is being sidelined: why are a miniscule elite cornering most of the wealth generated by the common people?
Money needs to be given out to people; cash in hand, is at the core of restarting the economy.
BJP is trampling upon the country’s federal structure and concentrating all power in the Centre’s hands, putting at risk the project of building a democratic, secular, inclusive and egalitarian India. Two articles.
Given the urgency of the need to effectively combat COVID-19, the government quickly needs to bring the private healthcare sector under government control. This is also needed so that we can continue to combat other diseases like TB, which too kill tens of thousands of people every year
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