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• India’s lockdown will invite perils for its people

  28 March 2020

  by Arun Srivastava
  The success of India’s 21-day lockdown to fight Coronavirus depends on how quickly the country’s health system can detect and isolate persons already infected with the disease. It is expected that lockdown will slow down the virus transmission in the larger community. But it is yet not clear that how many people who will be in homes during the lockdown are actually infected.
  The lockdown in China was backed by adequate government planning and monitoring of the (…)

• Socialist Party (India) Demands Immediate Action from the Government to Ensure Social Security for the Common People of the Country During the Lockdown

  28 March 2020

  DOCUMENT
  PRESS RELEASE | 26 March 2020
  In order to ensure that no person in India goes hungry or faces economic ruin due to the 21-day lockdown announced on Tuesday, it is imperative that the government take immediate, extensive and wide-ranging measures. If effective action is taken in a timely manner, this will not only provide people with the safety net they need to get through the lockdown but will increase the trust the common person places in the higher authorities of the country. (…)

• Public Statement on COVID19 Crisis released by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) (20 March, 2020)

  28 March 2020

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  Press Release by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS)
  (20 March, 2020)
  India is passing through the first stage of the most serious health crisis in its recent history. How we respond to it as a society is crucial to mitigating effects of COVID 19 on our individual health. Democracy is ultimately a system of social relationships, of everyone with everybody else, that respects the twin principles of equality and individual autonomy, so that everyone becomes (…)

• Covid 19 lockdown: Urgent suggestions to the Government of India to support to farmers, their livelihoods as well as to ensure uninterrupted food supply chains

  28 March 2020

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  E-MAIL
  Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 13:19 Subject: URGENT SUGGESTIONS TO GOI WITH REGARD TO SUPPORT TO FARMERS, THEIR LIVELIHOODS AS WELL AS TO ENSURE UNINTERRUPTED FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS
  To: 1. Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India; 2. Shri N S Tomar, Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare; 3. Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister; 4. Shri Amit Shah, Home Minister; 5. Dr Ramesh Chand, Member Agriculture, NITI Aayog
  Dear Sirs / Madam, (…)

• PM’s financial package of Rs 15,000 crore for healthcare is very little - CPI Press Release (March 25, 2020)

  28 March 2020

  DOCUMENT
  Communist Party of India Ajoy Bhawan 15, Indrajit Gupta Marg New Delhi - 110002
  March 25, 2020
  Press Release
  CPI Terms Rs 15,000-Crore Modi Package as Very little
  Communist Party of India General Secretary D Raja issued the following statement on March 25, 2020 terming PM’s financial package of Rs 15,000 crore for healthcare as very little:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India is of the strong view that the financial package of Rs 15,000 crore for (…)

• Behind Delhi riots lies politically-designed, socially-embedded trajectory of Discipline-Hate-Punishment

  28 March 2020

  by Hem Borker
  Nothing about the riots that unfolded in Delhi, the police repression of the student protestors in Jamia Millia Islamia or the mob lynchings of Muslims, is spontaneous. The reason for this deep-rooted hatred and inhuman violence lies in the politically-designed, socially-embedded trajectory of Discipline-Hate-Punishment, which we routinely see playing out before our eyes.
  As gory images of the violence unleashed during the Delhi riots started streaming in, there was soon a (…)

• Covid-19: Modi, Putin to coordinate efforts

  28 March 2020, by M K Bhadrakumar

  March 26, 2020
  Soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the nation on Wednesday on the government’s coronavirus response and measures to be adopted to deal with the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to him on the phone. The Indian and Russian readouts (here and here) have alike highlighted that the two leaders “agreed to strengthen coordination in the coronavirus response effort” (Kremlin).
  The two countries are facing similar challenges. Having done very (…)

• Europe’s leaders must protect free flow of information to tackle COVID-19: IPI joins with press freedom partners in call to EU leaders

  28 March 2020

  International Press Institute, 25 March 2020
  The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on European leaders to protect free flow of information and ensure that media freedom will be guaranteed as states strive to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
  IPI joined together with eight other press freedom bodies to express its profound concerns about the dangers of governments taking advantage of the (…)

• Mother of all impunity from terrorism charges

  28 March 2020

  by Mustafa Khan
  Impunity in Indian context differs from region to region and from group to group. When witches were hunted tried and condemned to be burnt at the stake there was no avoidance in the western countries. In New England the people believed that the devil lived just off the clearing in the forest. In Delhi they are burning Bharatvasi who are passed off as Indians without a religious tag! And now when the deadly coronavirus is raging this Friday the PM Modi is still fiddling with (…)

• Signs of the times

  28 March 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  Musings - March 25, 2020
  If we are over with clapping and banging on thaalis and the other noise rendering sessions, its time to sit up and see the dark realities hitting millions amongst us. Lack or rather the near-absence of water. And when we say wash hands every twenty minutes with water and soap to keep off the Corona virus, do we realize that millions do not have access to water nor soap. At times not even a drop of clean drinking water! Nor do they have access to the basic food (…)