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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.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...
Corona Crisis: States And Centre Must Work In Tandem To Win
By Kalyani Shankar Is the opposition supporting Modi government’s efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic? Is the government doing enough? One should not raise eyebrows if the opposition parties do not praise the government’s effort, though they are forced to give lip-support reluctantly. Even in the United States despite...
War Against Corona: Mamata Leads From The Front
By Barun Das Gupta Tom Landry is not a familiar name in India. He was not a great politician either. He was an American football player. But what he said once is a quotable quote: “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing...
FinMin’s Economic Package Doesn’t Address Workers’ Issues: AITUC
By IPA Special Correspondent New Delhi: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Friday termed the government’s economic package inadequate to tackle the situation arising from COVID–19 and said it includes already running schemes. On Wednesday, AITUC demanded Rs 5 lakh crore-package for the needy to deal with...
Coronavirus Response: Mass Quarantine As Mind Control
By Deepa Punjani The humanitarian crisis that Covid-19 has unleashed cannot be underestimated. It has changed our world for the foreseeable future and its echoes will reverberate even after normalcy has been restored. Underlying the pandemic, however, are serious questions that impinge upon our human rights and civil liberties,...
Love In The Time Of Coronavirus And The Internet
By A Dishwasher, un Lavaplatos Introductory note: The capitalist economy has produced a type of human being who, in moments of crisis such as these times impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19), is capable of buying everything, leaving others who need the same items with nothing. —Dagoberto Gutiérrez No one was...
Govt Advice To PSUs On Virus Control Is Welcome
By Nantoo Banerjee It is high time that central ministers and top bureaucrats stop meddling with commercial decisions of the management of their departmental undertakings, especially at this difficult time. In the past, such interferences have led to financial misery of many public sector undertakings (PSUs). The worst of...
Covid 19: Democracy Could Have Saved China, And The World
By Amulya Ganguli After Deng Xiaoping launched his four modernizations drive in the 1970s related to agriculture, industry, defence and science and technology to extricate China from Mao Zedong’s personalized ideological straitjacket, a pro-democracy activist, Wei Jingsheng, put up a poster on the so-called “democracy wall” in Beijing, calling...
Covid-19 Aftermath: World Poised To Embrace De-Globalization
By Mriganka M Bhowmick It is not the time to get worried by pondering over the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Rather, it would be more prudent to accept the reality and chart out a new economic and business strategy based on the possible outcomes of the pandemic....
