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…
Chandrachur Singh Being a premier university, DU has a pandemic responsibility it is not fulfilling. It must rise to the occasion to do its duty as academic institutions world over are doing. Around 30 academics, a large number of non-teaching staff,…
Failure to invest in increasing vaccine production capacity has resulted in a desperate shortage of vaccines. If a third wave of the pandemic is to be averted, some 900 million people must be vaccinated twice over before winter sets in. That would call for 9 million doses a day, whereas we have 2.3 million dose availability at present.