‘Lest We Forget’: Why India Must Remember Its Present Horror
When the age of reason returns, the people responsible should be held to account for the biblical scale of suffering they have inflicted on a people who trusted them.
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When the age of reason returns, the people responsible should be held to account for the biblical scale of suffering they have inflicted on a people who trusted them.
What is happening in India right now is mass murder. The dead demand that mystical veils of inscrutability be ripped from history, for beneath them lie the banally obvious explanation for this carnage: capitalism.
Lancet Editorial Slams Modi Government for Ignoring Second Wave Warnings; Maha Kumbh ‘Single Largest Super Spreader Event’ Raising Virus Footprint Across India.
Ashish Jha, professor and dean of Brown University School of Public Health, speaks to Karan Thapar on various aspects relating to India’s handling of the pandemic, emergence of new variants, among others. Also: Key COVID Indicators Surged from Feb 2021 But Govts Failed to Act.
An incompetent, vainglorious leadership, combined with the RSS belief in magical capitalism, has led to the disaster that we are now facing. Also: India’s Covid Vaccine Price in Private Sector Ranges from Rs 700-Rs 1500, Among World’s Costliest.
The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) has listed out seven demands and asked the Union Government to face up to what has gone wrong so far.
While the nation is becoming more aware of the ills of what has now been infamously dubbed as the ‘Gujarat Model’, the Adivasis of Kevadia village in Gujarat have seen it all and have successfully built a resistance movement.
The state governments were, and continue to be, severely handicapped by shortage of funds. According to RBI’s analysis of state government budgets, revenue receipts (income) of state governments fell by a whopping 21% in 2020-21 compared with the previous year.
A report prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University has highlighted how employment and income had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels even in late 2020 and the latest surge in cases would only add to the devastation and distress.
Farmer unions put onus on government, say protest will continue till government takes the laws back, but no big action on cards in view of surging pandemic.
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