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...
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Prosenjit Datta
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...
