2020

We, the signatories, are all Veterans of the Indian Armed Forces, who have served in the defence of our nation in various ranks and appointments in peacetime and in operational/war zones, over the past several decades.

The Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) has noted that a letter reportedly issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is circulating in the news and other media. It is mentioned in this letter that ICMR and Bharat Biotech India Limited, a private pharmaceutical company, are jointly developing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The letter also states that “It is envisaged to launch the vaccine for public health use latest by 15th August 2020 after completion of all clinical trials.” IASc welcomes the exciting development of a candidate vaccine and wishes that the vaccine is quickly made available for public use. However, as a body of scientists – including many who are engaged in vaccine development – IASc strongly believes that the announced timeline is unfeasible. This timeline has raised unrealistic hope and expectations in the minds of our citizens.

Communist Party of India General Secretary D RAJA has issued the following statement today (on July 8, 2020) condemning the move to communalise CBSE syllabus

India will witness warmer days and nights, and heavy rainfall leading to floods till the end of the 21st century, said the first-ever climate change assessment report by the Indian government. The report Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region prepared by the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)

Through some three centuries of the European Renaissance, Capitalism came to be the dominant social force in the western world.
New economic relations of production ruthlessly displaced more humane forms of human association, even as earlier relations of production employed their own means of exploitation Capitalism simply made the expropriation of human labour an uncompromising founding principle of the class-based accumilaltion of wealth, causing the alienation of the human from nature, (…)

Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home. — Rabindranath Tagore
Is it that in the age of the Covid, death has lost its meaning, dignity and poetic wonder? As the virus spreads, hospitals are burdened with infected patients and crematoriums become unmanageable, we engage with death through numbers. Death becomes statistical abstraction: faceless, anonymous and devoid of a meaning. As fearful beings, we have already stigmatised the (…)

The rural poor people are suffering from so many problems due to prolonged lockdown for combating the spread of current coronavirus pandemic. Along with economic crisis they are deprived from health services from public sector. The middle income group and richer people also are in trouble for out break of the covid -19. They confess to be in fear in case of emergency patients of the families. In this time the government has moved to emphasize on covid related treatment such as testing, isolating and research and development on covid patients. In our daily lives there are so many non covid related diseases that have taken a backseat. The vulnerable households who are unable to take the scope of private medical treatment due to poor economic condition are in most deplorable condition now. WHO has already warned that this neglect in general health can become fatal. This paper attempts to show all the rural households including several type of patients have faced so many difficulties from this crisis. We have also focused in this paper the comparative situation between rich and poor. This study wants to say the people are afraid of death by not being infected of covid positive but non covid related health problems which are not adequately available in rural India.

I am writing this open letter regarding a major concern and a possible solution to it. The “HV” (Human Value) Pledge. This a possible suggestion regarding our Coronavirus warriors who, due to circulation of fake news on their mobile devices are not able to fulfill their duty in a free and fair manner.

IMPRESSIONS
July 5, 2020
Karl Marx summed up a complete philosophy when he set forth the precept, ’From each according to his ability?’ This was not communism. It was simply the acceptance of a guiding principle of life, that every individual had a responsibility to society. Does a father or a son, a factory owner or a businessman, a film star or a sportsman, a journalist or an engineer contribute to society according to the best of his ability? If he doesn’t, he is living off (…)

by Gopal Krishna
Introduction
Both ideas and ideologies have decisive killing effect.Derived from two Greek words which means "all-seeing", the original idea of panopticon was that of a prison conceived and designed to ensure perfect comprehensive surveillance of the prisoners. Panopticon refers to “the few seeing the many”. In this architecture, all those humans who have been made sub-humans through their categorisation as prisoners are under the inspection of few inspectors. Its (…)