IPA Special
Encounter With Coronavirus And The Economic Pandemic
By C Srikumar The whole country is under lockdown for 21 days, even though WHO has warned that a lockdown alone cannot defeat the coronavirus. Was our country fully prepared to meet both the corona and the economic pandemic? Have we learnt any lesson after the outbreak in China?...
Religion And Virus: Between A Hard Place And The Wall
By Sushil Kutty God versus Virus. Who would have thought! Praying for divine intervention at times of crisis has been in the nature of man from time immemorial. But for religions, which came rather late in the day, to take everything, including viruses, as a challenge to God’s supremacy...
Central Trade Unions Write Joint Letter To Labour Minister
By Satyaki Chakraborty Central trade unions of India have written a collective letter addressed to the Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Santosh Gangwar, highlighting the plight of workers, especially the informal workers, in the wake of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 induced 21-day lockdown. The joint letter has been...
UP Opposition Leaders Direct Rank And File To Help In Relief Work
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s opposition parties have come together in a big way to help the general public during the current corona crisis. Significantly enough, Rahul Gandhi who was avoiding visit to Amethi after being defeated in Lok Sabha polls, has sent his close aide along with...
Factors That Checkmate Modi’s National Lockdown
By K Raveendran Two kinds of images flashed across TV screens this week captured the essence of the nationwide lockdown declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fight the spread of coronavirus. The first category showed people standing within boxes or circles to buy essential items so as to...
Coronavirus Should Change Our Socio-Economic Policy
By Anjan Roy The coronavirus pandemic will leave some deep and fundamental lessons for organising our economy and for a new kind of social policy. If lockdown was the essential way to fight the spread of the virus, it has also shown where our social policies are flawed and...
Emerging Faultlines In India’s War Against Corona
By Gyan Pathak India’s war against coronavirus has exposed several social, economic, political, and administrative fault-lines of which some need urgent repair to win the battle within the lockdown period that ends on April 14. We have made a considerable defense against COVID-19, our enemy number 1, but are...
Indore Among The Cities Worst-Hit By Coronavirus Spread
By L.S. Herdenia Indore, the commercial hub of Madhya Pradesh, not only happens to be the worst affected town of the state, but also among the few worst affect cities of the country. From Monday it’s been under complete lockdown for three days. No one is being allowed on...
India Must Go Back To Nehru In The Age Of Coronavirus
By Santosh Paul & Dr Harsh Hegde Humanity has been winning the war against epidemics because in the arms race between pathogens and doctors… Once scientists understood what causes epidemics, it became much easier to fight them. Vaccinations, antibiotics, improved hygiene, and a much better medical infrastructure have allowed...
The Great Unravelling: Escaping Today, Rethinking Tomorrow
By Alan Simpson Welcome to ghost-town Britain, a land none of us was prepared for. Barely three months ago, you would have ridiculed anyone suggesting we would be tuning in to the daily death count from virus which was creating mayhem across the land. But this is where we...
