The first 21 days have been frittered away by the Union government. The remaining period should be utilised properly. Whether India should have imposed a national lockdown when relatively few cases of Coronavirus had...
Author - Prosenjit Datta
Prosenjit Datta
Lockdown Diaries6: A Chain Broken
Every link in the logistics industry broke down. It will take a long time for normalcy to return. Even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his announcement at 8 pm on 24 March that a complete lockdown would be...
Winners and Losers
The Coronavirus pandemic is going to punish some digital businesses – and help others accelerate One thing has become very clear after as the Coronavirus pandemic roils the globe and forces governments to go for partial...
Lockdown Diaries5: What Is An Essential Product?
Essential goods and services should be available uninterrupted said the Prime Minister. But who decides what is essential and what is not? “Essential”— The Dictionary defines it as “completely necessary” or...
Lockdown Diaries4: The Last Mile Man
The delivery boys had to bear the brunt of the chaos following the lockdown announcement As far as the social and financial hierarchy goes, the delivery boy – or delivery partner, as online businesses like to...
Lockdown Diaries3: Out In The Cold
Individual states are scrambling to take care of migrant workers and others, without any help from the union government (28 March 2020) The first instalment of the Lock Down Diaries (26 March 2020 ) had dealt with the...
Lockdown Diaries2: Medical and Non-Medical Issues
Doctors and other healthcare workers are finding that they need to fight much more than just the disease. In the first few days of the nationwide lockdown, as local administrations still struggled to get their act...
Lockdown Diaries1: Flotsam and Jetsam
The lockdown was announced without the slightest plan about what to do about the poor and the homeless and the migrant labour 26 March 2020: Two days into the lockdown – five days really given that most states had...
Planning Omission
The government’s handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic threat has been piecemeal and erratic so far. March 24, 2020: In another 8 PM address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nation-wide lockdown for...
An Economic Apocalypse
The COVID-19 pandemic is a bigger threat to the Indian economy than anything it has faced since Independence. And the government is both unprepared and lacks enough ammunition to tackle it. Much before Prime...
