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COVID-19 infections have been rising among millions of tea pickers - many of whom live in cramped living quarters with difficulty in curbing the virus’ spread.
Chennai: When Indian tea plantation worker Bholanath Natto and his wife tested positive for COVID–19, their biggest worry was not their (...)
In just the past month, India has officially recorded around 10 million Covid-positive cases and 100,000 Covid-related deaths. As the second wave of the pandemic spirals out of control, India’s healthcare system is facing a chronic shortage of oxygen, hospital beds, vaccines, and critical (...)
It’s hard to live in India these days, surrounded by death, fear and grief. We are inundated with heart-breaking TV reports of people begging for hospital beds and oxygen as their family members die on the pavement or in vehicles gasping for breath. Others die inside hospitals as they run out of (...)
Modi did not want only to prevent a second wave; he wanted all the credit for stopping COVID-19 in its tracks to go to him and him alone.
In her heart-rending description of her desperate search for oxygen to save her father’s life, the celebrated TV news anchor Barkha Dutt ascribed his death (...)
India has been gripped by a new Coronavirus variant that has wreaked havoc in the second largest country on earth. On Saturday, 1st May, India became the first country in the world to cross the threshold of 400,000 daily new cases with 3689 deaths. The grim picture of an elderly Indian woman (...)
Let us be clear from the outset: what is happening in India right now is mass murder. And it is organized by a man who has practice in such matters.
Two images bookend the current crisis and contain in them a trajectory of the crisis. The first is the image of the Indian police hosing down (...)
As late as January 2021, the Union health minister had promised that Covid 19 vaccines would be free for everybody. But the just announced price sheets for vaccines go back on the promise of free vaccines for all. Pocketing super profits after using public funds for production of vaccines, that (...)
There have been many predictions about how many people have had COVID-19 and whether or not this or that country has reached herd immunity. We have seen this before in Manaus, Brazil, and in India. The optimism is alas always misplaced and occasionally used irresponsibly.
We have seen (...)
Fewer coronavirus patients have died in the state of Kerala than anywhere else in India. No wonder Vogue India named its health minister ‘leader of the year’
By mid-May, the Indian state of Kerala had contained the first wave of Covid-19, earning praise for the quick thinking and joined-up (...)
As per the report’s findings, 64% of people said that their consumption of lentils had gone down and 73% said their consumption of green vegetables had reduced in the last two months.
New Delhi: More than five months after the nationwide COVID-19-induced lockdown came to an end, the hunger (...)
India has become the world’s new hotspot of the Covid-19 pandemic as infection cases have surged in recent weeks. On September 7, India overtook Brazil with 4.2 million confirmed cases to become the country with the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world. On September 16, the (...)
The title of this article is a humble nod to a significant work of literature of the last century, Marquez’s magic realism, ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. The current Covid crisis is no less of magic realism: a tiny virus has virtually brought capitalism to its knees. The damage that two World (...)
Introduction
A spectre is, right now, haunting the world.
The spectre of a pandemic - COVID-19.
COVID-191,2,3 is a viral disease - both infectious and potentially fatal, belonging to the SARS family, caused by a zoonotic - i.e. transmitted from animals to humans, virus.
It, mainly, affects (...)
India’s management of the COVID-19 global pandemic has been marked by excessive centralisation, lawless lawmaking and non-consultative decision-making processes at the union government level. This has created an atmosphere of confusion in the management of the disease, leading to India becoming (...)
Economies around the world, and those in the developing world in particular, face monumental challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. The unprecedented lockdown announced by Governments in order to contain the spread of the virus has brought to the fore a serious crisis of (...)
India has been under a lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus for two months. On March 25, the first day of the lockdown, India had 618 confirmed cases and 13 deaths.
As India is easing the lockdown now, it has more than 151,000 cases and more than 4,300 deaths — a much smaller number (...)
The other day, I came across a rather interesting news item. A BJP woman leader of Hyderabad Ms. Prasanna, while driving back home was blocked by a crowd queuing in front of a liquor shop. She got down from her car, and was shocked to discover among the crowd the migrant workers whom she had (...)
The left-ruled Indian State of Kerala continues to remain in the global spotlight for its effective and efficient measures in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Kerala dominated the Indian news headlines, showing the rest of the world its potential, its strength and its humane approach, (...)
From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how “the virus” became “the Muslim virus” in less than a week.
On Thursday, March 19, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his first national address amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, in which, elegantly eschewing any talk of the government’s (...)
The Left Democratic Front (LDF)-governed Indian state of Kerala’s reaction to the coronavirus virus outbreak is now hailed as an international example for COVID-19 control.
Kerala’s COVID-19 response included public education and support for people’s livelihoods. Photo: CPI(M)
As of May 18, this (...)
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