24 May 2021 Like how the Lord said ‘let there be light’ and there was, India’s foremost leader, PM Narendra Modi had declared that citizens needed to be Atmanirbhar and Indians became that. While toolkit is a controversial document as of now, ever since climate activist and teen Greta Thunberg was associated with one and […]
19 May 2021 One common thread running through now on social media and even mainstream media is how apparently whole families are affected this time by Covid19 in the current second surge in India whereas the same was not experienced last time round. There are several factors for that, which also offer us a set […]
17 May 2021 Caught unawares India seemed to actually reprise the dire warnings that Rahul Gandhi had issued last year, one where the ‘tsunami’ word was used, where he made the example of people catching fish when the waters retreated. So now when the waters overwhelmed us in this surge of cases, where people were […]
13 May 2021 Was science ever at the heart of India’s Covid Strategy? This question is repeatedly raised in my mind, because, no amount of answering it waters it down. Not just the simple rejection of R0 or Rt number in the very early days of last February/March when the strategy to fight this pandemic […]
9 May 2021 We are now getting snippets of cases as anecdotal evidence of doctors who are dying of Covid19 after getting their shots! First was a case of a US based doctor who had come to India and died of Covid here, then there were reports of senior doctors of KGMU and now clinicians […]
8 May 2021 It is very easy for Indians now to give up. It seems that our problems are not just because of now, but because for decades we have evaded the investment that our health warranted and our private sector did not get the kind of incentives it needed to step up to the […]
6 May 2021 This is exactly how one foresaw this surge and its management. After all, if any thing, I always felt that “ If things could go wrong, they surely would.” applied to Indian bureaucracy more than any other. So Delhi HC ordered Contempt which was stayed by SC, however for the first time […]
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30 April 2021 This is probably the bleakest moment for many Indians who rose out of poverty and made material success and celebrated Indian spirituality as they understood it, the pulpy Ramanand Sagar TV opus form, and who were looking to scale even greater heights under Mr Modi’s leadership. The way India is now taking […]
29 April 2021 It was astonishing to hear the Apex Court being informed by the Solicitor General that Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Mr Amit Shah were personally supervising the supply of Oxygen across the country’s hospitals that were struggling for it and equally to hear that the draconian NSA had been slapped on […]
27 April 2021 Right now it seems like each moment is an eternity, there appears to be a Dance of Death, one that plays out with people struggling, gasping as if in a trance, before dropping dead. The science of Corona viruses and particularly that of this SARS CoV2 with her posse of variants of […]
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