Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough to Eradicate a Virus – Lessons from History
Smallpox eradication teaches that high-tech vaccinations only work when they are effectively combined with low-tech public health strategies.
Happy to be Part of Clinical Trials But Won’t Take Covaxin as a Vaccine: Gagandeep Kang
One of India’s top vaccine experts discusses her concerns regarding the manner in which Covaxin and Covishield have been approved for restricted emergency use.
Concern Over Emergency Use Approval to Vaccine Candidates: Two Statements
Appeal to the DCGI to reconsider the recommendations of the SEC in granting the REU approval to Covaxin.
Government’s Timidity in Handling Fiscal Deficit Post- Pandemic has Added to Workers Woes
The government did not give out relief packages in order to avoid stretching beyond its fiscal deficit limit, because it would have been frowned upon by global finance.
Ambedkar Felt Nobody Could be as Disdainful of the Legislature as the British. Modi Proved Him Wrong
By cancelling the winter session of the Parliament, the Modi government has yet again undercut the legislature and the deliberative process of law-making.
India’s Season of Dissent: an Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
Marx on Exploitation: an ABC for an Unequal World
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
Support the Struggle of the Farmers: It Is Our Struggle Too – Part 2
The struggle against neoliberal reforms in agriculture would not only make farming sustainable and profitable, it would also lead to the creation of crores of jobs in agriculture. Therefore, the struggle of the farmers is closely connected to the struggle of the youth for adequate means of livelihood.
Little Value from Global Chains
Standing on the shoulders of foreign firms and depending on foreign markets, while riding roughshod over workers, is not the way to journey to an Atmanirbhar Bharat – the workers’ protest at Wistron’s Bengaluru factory assembling Apple iPhones makes this very clear.
Indigenous Movements and the Struggle for Defense of Land in 2020
On top of the existing violence and institutional impediments, this year was particularly taxing for the defenders of land and environment as they had to face double whammy of COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of neoliberalism using the pandemic as an excuse.