How Sri Lanka’s militarized response to Covid led to the unraveling of a nation
Note: This is the second in a series of articles on the economic and social crisis in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of Covid-19 by journalist Tushar Dhara who was in the country to report on the events there first hand. On 18 March, 2020 – a week after the first local case of Covid-19 was reported in Sri Lanka –[Read More…]
Taxing times for India’s cooperative federalism
Far from bringing out the best in people and institutions, a crisis can bring out the worst too. That is precisely what seems to have happened, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, to the concept of ‘cooperative federalism’ between the central and state governments, claimed as one of his key policies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since the beginning[Read More…]