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…
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‘Let them eat Amrit’: After Covid a pandemic of extreme hunger awaits India
The Modi government’s indifference to the plight of the poor is now pathological. The Indian government’s rhetoric about ‘Amrit Kaal,’ an era of plenty, masks a consistent denial of the…
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…
How Covid in India became cover for rampant human rights violations
Even while a draconian lockdown was underway in late March 2020, and as thousands of migrant workers and their emaciated families escaped the pandemic in a helpless long march on…
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…
Rural and urban women hit hardest by Covid-induced unemployment
It is well-nigh impossible to obtain accurate information in a country where data is routinely fudged or camouflaged, be it the number of deaths due to the killer virus, or,…
The Indian media and Covid – Part One: Locked up during Lockdown
Note: In this series of articles senior journalist Amit Sengupta examines the role of the Indian media during the two years of the Covid pandemic. Part One: Locked up during…
Omicron could be less dangerous!
Omicron is the name given to a mutant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported in South Africa. Subsequently, several other countries, including India, have reported cases of this variant. Among those infected…
Omicron: Much sound with little light
Origin: Unknown Crime record: Unknown Armed or unarmed: Unknown Capabilities: Unknown Motive: Unknown Category: Extremely dangerous! If that were a profile of a criminal suspect, the cop writing it would…
The human body as a synonym for Planet Earth
Note: This article is based on a presentation made on 25 October 2021 at the Congreso de Salud Socioambiental organised by the Instituto de Salud Socioambiental, Rosario, Argentina It is…
Between Vaccine and the Ventilator
“I am planning to get my Covid vaccine shot this week” I told a very dear German friend of mine the other day over the phone. “No! Don’t do that!”…
A nation starved: Could ‘New India’ witness a famine?
Covid lockdown and the Catastrophe of Hunger in India – Part Three The economic fallout of the Covid-19 lockdowns has created the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. Numerous surveys…
The Covid Lockdowns and the Catastrophe of Hunger in India – Part Two
The economic fallout of the Covid-19 lockdowns has created the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. Numerous surveys have revealed the sheer gravity of this unfolding catastrophe in India and…
The Covid Lockdowns and the Catastrophe of Hunger in India – Part One
The economic fallout of the Covid-19 lockdowns has created the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. Numerous surveys have revealed the sheer gravity of this unfolding catastrophe in India and…
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