How have Asian Governments Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Class and social privilege, race/ethnicity, gender, occupation and age determine who are most vulnerable to the virus and disease in countries across Asia.
From Aadhaar to Aarogya Setu: How Surveillance Technology is Devaluing India’s Democratic Rights
The app could potentially allow the government to peer into aspects of the user’s private life that have nothing to do with Covid-19.
Criminal Intimidation of The Wire & its Editor, Siddharth Varadarajan and In Defence of a Free, Non-Communal Media
Statement by over 3500 intellectuals slamming the UP government for filing false criminal charges against The Wire and one of its founding editors, Siddharth Varadarajan.
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace Calculation COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is now officially a pandemic. As of late March, whole cities are sheltered in place and, one by one, hospitals are lighting up in medical gridlock brought…
The Republic and the Kashmir Valley: From Federalism to “Internal Colonisation”
Neera Chandhoke In the 18th and 19th centuries, colonial powers justified the conquest of large parts of Asia and Sub-Saharan African in terms of an almost divine mission. The mission compelled them to bring “development” and “civilisation” to the territories that had been colonised. The justification was, but a cloak, for more nefarious purposes. The…
A Hundred Years of Amrita Pritam
A drop of your love had blended in So I drank the entire bitterness of life … Born in pre-partition Punjab and schooled in Punjabi, Amrita Pritam’s words stand witness to the upheavals of the 20th century wherein she was born. Destined to be a poet, the main concerns of her writing were love, freedom,…