Women Frontline Warriors and Covid-19- Part Two
[In Part One of this article, we examined the restrictions in extending Rs.50 lakh compensation to the next of kin of Covid-19 frontline warriors who died after contracting Covid-19 while…
B Sivaraman
Women Frontline Warriors and Covid-19 – Part One
"Is beemari se bachne ke liye jo hamare dhaal hain jaise hamare doctor, swasthyakarmi, safai karmachari aur police aadi, unka samman karen, unhen sahyog den. In yoddhaon ki karo dekhbhaal…
Covid impact on India’s industrial sectors
The impact of the Covid pandemic on Indian companies has not been uniform across all sectors. In fact, the pandemic had come as a boon to some sectors and a…
Covid impact on India’s corporate sector: Part Two
The halting recovery of the Indian economy from the Covid pandemic received an unexpected blow from the Ukraine war. India’s corporate world is now struggling to cope with this double-trouble…
Corporate Sector booms while India wilts during Covid Pandemic
Covid impact on India’s corporate sector The halting recovery of the Indian economy from the Covid pandemic received an unexpected blow from the Ukraine war. India’s corporate world is now…
Covid impact on India’s animals and livestock
Can animals get infected with the Covid virus? What are the chances for human-to-animal and animal-to-human transmission of the virus? Among numerous other uncertainties, these two also remained the prominent…
Pandemic Impact on Food Prices— Part Two
Agriculture is the only sector of the Indian economy that posted a positive growth of 3.4% in the pandemic year of 2020–21. But this stability in production did not reflect…
Impact of the Covid Pandemic on Food Prices in India- Part One
In the 3–4 months before the Covid pandemic set in early 2020, potato prices were ruling high at around Rs.30–35 per kg in the retail markets. India’s potato farmers who…
Covid-19 and Health Insurance in India – Part Two
The Covid-19 pandemic spurred a rush in the Indian middle class to get health insurance policies. The Indian government too came up with some new health insurance instruments exclusively to…
Covid-19 and Health Insurance in India- Part One
The Covid-19 pandemic spurred a rush in the Indian middle class to get health insurance policies. The Indian government too came up with some new health insurance instruments exclusively to…
The Indian Railways and Covid – Part II
It is the largest employer in India and eighth largest in the world. It is also the fourth longest railway network in the world sprawling out to a total…
The Indian Railways and Covid – Part I
It is the largest employer in India and eighth largest in the world. It is also the fourth longest railway network in the world sprawling out to a total length…
Gig workers get a raw deal in pandemic period
They are workers but without any formal “employment”. They do work but have no jobs. They might sport Zomato or Swiggy t-shirts and caps. But they are not their workers.…
Coimbatore auto drivers challenge Ola, Uber in midst of Covid pandemic
In the midst of the stressful Covid pandemic autorickshaw workers in Coimbatore have come up with an innovative model for improving incomes of gig workers by forming their own cooperative.…
Covid rocks India’s federal structure, amidst calls for reform
On 2 June 2021, Odisha Chief Minister Navin Patnaik wrote a letter to all chief ministers urging them to “unite and form a consensus that the Centre should procure Covid…
Covid-induced online education hurts poor families
Written by B.Sivaraman & Kumudini Pati Online classes have become the main mode of learning for millions of school students across India due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with its repeated…
Dead teachers don’t count in UP
When the New York Times recently claimed that the official Covid-19 figures in India grossly understate the true scale of the pandemic in the country the Indian government went ballistic. Based on…
Four tales of life and death in Covid times
Allahabad: “Theek hai yaar. Koi baat nahin![i] Don’t worry. I will make some alternative arrangement”. Nihal Mishra was putting on a brave, courteous face while getting blunt refusals from three…
When death floats down the Ganga
Allahabad: The recent images of bloating human bodies floating on the Ganga, with crows and dogs picking on the carcasses have shocked the nation and made headlines around the world.…
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