TK Arun How could the CPI(M) not give Shailaja Teacher a second term as health minister? After all, she had been the public face of Kerala’s competent Covid management, until chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan took over that role with daily…
Simi Mehta, G Sridevi On the celebration of the birth anniversary of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar and in the context of Shudras revolution in nations building, the Centre for Human Dignity and Development (CCHD), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute,…
Soumaydip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar Over the most recent few decades, the worldwide South, particularly India, have seen an enormous growth of urban cities. In India, more than 33% of its population lives in cities. In any case, the metropolitan turn…
Neoliberalism has lead to mass sufferings in the country. DEAD bodies of human beings floating in the River Ganges, is the latest in the gory stories we have been witnessing for the last few weeks. Frantic calls from friends’ right from the ones who are at high echelons to common people continued incessantly. These calls were made either for oxygen, beds in hospitals, or/and even for getting a place for cremation and burial. Not just that. Keeping the dead body overnight waiting for cremation cost more than Rs 55,000 is not an isolated case, rather innumerable such instances occurred.
Tikender Singh Panwar On May 8, I got a call from one of my state cadre (Himachal Pradesh) IAS officers posted in Delhi. The call was mainly to check each other’s well-being owing to the second wave of the pandemic…
Amita Singh The recent GNCTD Amendment Act seems to be a case of using legislation to settle ideological disputes. However, in doing so, it not only violates the principles of constitutional morality and objectivity, but also defies the democratic and…