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For nearly 15 months, India is affected by the killer Covid -19 Pandemic. The first traces of it began when a group of Indian students returned from the Wuhan Province of China in January 2020 and tested positive for the virus. (...)
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Managing the Covid 19 Pandemic: Executive’s failures lead to Judiciary’s Directives | P S Jayaramu
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Global Vaccine MNC Monopoly depriving vaccine for Developing World | Soma Sundar
14 May 2021by Dr. Soma Sundar M *
A workable solution to Covid pandemic is vaccinat7ng a significant part of the population to break the chain and achieve herd immunity. Otherwise new waves of disease keep appearing taking toll of innumerable human lives. (...) -
Need For Invocation of Emergency Powers Under The Patents Act | Chittarvu Raghu
14 May 2021by Chittarvu Raghu
Vaccination is the only solution to mitigate the ferocity of Covid-19. If we continue the present pace of vaccination, experts say that it would take many years to administer vaccine to all. The statistics released by the (...) -
Foretaste of Oxygen deficiency: A Personal Account | AK Biswas
14 May 2021, by A K BiswasA harrowing tale of a wife to save her husband
Many newspapers on April 26, 2021 carried a heart-wrenching story under the screaming headline ‘Oxygen nightmare: Desperate wife fails to blow life into dying husband.’ Despite such last ditch (...) -
’Didi-o-Didi’ Has Reverse Effects Too | TJS George
14 May 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Home Minister Amit Shah was bent on winning Bengal this time. He not only held rallies there, but also used central government agencies to strengthen his party’s position. Even the Election Commission attracted criticism the (...) -
The Left Turn Continues in Kerala | Ratheesh Kaliyadan
14 May 2021by Dr. Ratheesh Kaliyadan Once more, Kerala turns Left with 99 seats out of 140 with 47.47% vote share. “Is there any historical significance of this success?” is the question that comes immediately after the declaration of the left victory in (...) -
Gouri Amma leaves a void hard to fill | M K Bhadrakumar
14 May 2021, by M K Bhadrakumarby M. K. Bhadrakumar
May 12, 2021
The vernacular dailies and the New Indian Express almost forgot the raging Covid-19 pandemic in Kerala. Obituaries to KR Gouri — better known as “Gouri Amma” (Mother) — is their lead story.
As I waded through the (...) -
Inside Story: How Himanta Biswa Sarma Became Assam CM | Barun Das Gupta
14 May 2021, by Barun Das GuptaThe unanimous election of Himanta Biswa Sarma as the new Chief Minister of Assam had all the elements of a melodrama. First, all the 60 BJP MLAs were called to Delhi and each was asked to write the name of the person whom he wanted to see as (...) -
Governance in the State of Odisha: Look beyond the catchword - A Response to Pralay Kanungo & Sitaram Kumbhar | Radhakanta Barik
14 May 2021, by Radhakanta Barikby Prof Radhakanta Barik *
[The below article is written in response to a joint paper by Pralay Kanungo & Sitaram Kumbhar, ’Odisha’s Transformation under the Naveen Patnaik Regime’ in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) - Vol. 56, Issue No. 8, 20 (...) -
Talking of What Was Taboos / Israeli Atrocities Against the Palestinians | Humra Quraishi
14 May 2021, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
12 May 2021
In the Indian families anything connected to death was rarely spoken about and discussed. To talk of the qabristans and shamshan-ghats or crematoriums or cemeteries was greatly discouraged if not a complete no-no. Well, no (...)
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