Opinion

The global pandemic has unleashed a war for medical equipment and several other governments are accused of confiscating shipments for their own nation’s use.

By the time the FM gave us an estimate of eight crore migrants who were to be offered free foodgrain for two months, most were already on the long march home.

The nationwide lockdown resulted in a collapse in demand, forcing farmers to throw away, re-plough or feed their cattle with perishable produce like vegetables, flowers, poultry and milk.

The call for ‘Vocal for Local’ will be more successful if entire production, storage, processing and branding be as per the Agro-climatic zones. This is going to be truly local then.

India had reported 39,980 positive cases when it crossed the landmark of conducting one million tests. The USA had more than four times the number of confirmed cases and Spain more than five times.

We have to train our minds to escape this reductionist approach, which reduces the actual issue of injustice and inhumanity to a Hindu-Muslim binary.

India, with almost 430% of US population and just 14% of its GDP, saw far fewer infections and deaths. The reasons are as much cultural as these are political.

A pandemic of this nature can create a shock whose tremors could impact basic delivery of services. Technology could be the bridge allowing uninterrupted delivery merely by broad-basing already existing initiatives.

The political class of the country would do better by keeping aside their games of one-upmanship on social media aside for a while and focus on saving humanity.

With uncertainty over data, political leadership may become extremely risk averse, persisting with lockdown as a way of avoiding downside risks rather than as a strategy to deal with the epidemic.

Indian stock markets have now officially entered the ‘bear’ territory as Nifty 50 slipped below the 9,700 mark for the first time since September 2017 and the Sensex crashed by nearly 2,500 points, the lowest in almost two years.

The Shaheen Bagh phenomenon has been analysed in terms of political outcomes and as a celebration of the coming out of Muslim women by many. However, it is important to analyse it to measure its potential to realign society in terms of gender justice.

The fallacy of whataboutery is infinitely uglier than bad old vices like mendacity, corruption, and misuse of power.

The Delhi poll results have undeniably dampened the BJP spirit and, at the same time, enhanced the bargaining capacity of Nitish Kumar during seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly polls.

The BJP and its sympathisers don’t have to look farther than their own actions in the past three months in the Capital for their rout.

The movie has shown the exodus which is easy because of the footage available but has failed to capture the context that led to the exodus.