, by Radical Socialist
The current Modi Government has shown both criminal neglect and criminal intent in how it has dealt with this pandemic. Let the facts speak for themselves as we simply lay down the time sequence of what the Government did do as well as what it did not or refused to do. The Medical Response (...)
, by DRÈZE Jean, NAIR Preetha
Indian Economist Jean Dreze, in an interview with Outlook, says that because of the Coronavirus lockdown, there won’t be any employment under MNREGA now and Bihar will be the worst-hit.
Belgian-born Indian economist, Jean Dreze, says that the central government needs to take immediate measures (...)
, by The Wire (IN)
The ‘biggest human migration on foot after Partition’ is underway, after India imposed Covid-19 restrictions more drastic than any other country.
Horrific, heartbreaking images have emerged of lakhs of migrant workers trudging towards to their villages, sometimes braving a journey of hundreds of (...)
, by The Wire (IN)
An incisive report highlights how a substantial workforce of 139 million internal migrant workers, invisible to the system, has been the hardest hit post-lockdown. Further, it lists the urgent measures needed to ensure a safe and dignified existence for migrant communities.
In the first few (...)
, by IBRAHIM Tanmoy
Finally, it has arrived. When it arrived after a long period of speculations, it was welcomed by all onlookers with loud applause. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) or the Prime Minister’s Welfare Scheme for Poors on March 26th 2020, (...)
, by THAPAR Karan
India needs a better system of social protection for day labourers as well as the women home makers and carers who stay in the villages. The Covid-19 pandemic proves it.
The Union finance minister’s Thursday package of measures offered nothing to directly relieve the dire predicament of migrant (...)
, by PADS (IN)
India is passing through the second stage of the most serious health crisis in its recent history. How we respond to it as a society is crucial to mitigating the effect of COVID 19 virus on our individual health. Democracy is ultimately a system of social relationships, of everyone with (...)
, by Coalition for Environmental Justice in India
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has reached a stage of a massive and unprecedented crisis in India. Evidence from previous historical research of epidemics suggests physical distancing, timely state action and communicating the truth are critical strategies to effectively tackle a pandemic. (...)
, by DRÈZE Jean
If the poor must stay at home, they need income support and essential services.
As the novel coronavirus spreads, a double crisis looms over India: a health crisis and an economic crisis. In terms of casualties, the health crisis is still very confined (seven deaths in a country where eight (...)
, by MUKUNTH Vasudevan, VARADARAJAN Siddharth
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation today was a combination of sound if incomplete public health advice and dramatic appeals to civic consciousness, even as it lacked what many had hoped he would provide – an authoritative account of how the government intends to deal with the (...)
, by KUMBHAR Kiran
As many of us are painfully aware, social distancing is an impossibility for much of India (and a lot of other regions). Measures such as hand-washing, keeping oneself at home if symptomatic, working from home can be followed without any major life repercussions only by a tiny minority of the (...)
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