The Chinese Experiment 15 July 24 The Constitution There was a moment in history, when it appeared that two ancient cultures, which were syncretic and which fortuitously had historical linkages through trade and transmission of knowledge, were to chart a similar trajectory when China after being mauled by her ‘Cultural Revolution’ and India stymied by […]
Tag: Covid19 Containment strategy
16 September 2021 The world has seen a series of misses. Clear windows when if only humans had been better led and listened to, they would have had the window to prevent this Pandemic from becoming what it has. A little knowledge is dangerous is what Alfred Hitchcock whispered into audiences from his ‘The Man […]
15 September 2021 (A round up of all the evidence so far about the Pandemic from the scientific community is summarised in this blog with inputs up till 14 September 2021 Cutting to the chase, first up let us see what the evidence so far from scientific papers and experts is on the Covid19, where […]
12 July 2021 Right now the fancy variants of concern of the SARS CoV2 virus are getting labelled in Greek alphabet, only here too, there is extreme reluctance to label them that way, because I guess the scientists do not wish to run out of options. So we had a ‘Delta Plus’ before we have […]
8 July 2021 A dystopian world is not difficult to conjure for the future, this being imagination and inspiration in parts, one that is actually brought about by lack of both in the present. Yet, the past year has been a series of such missteps and calculative fuss, an obsession with numbers and headlines, with […]
29 June 2021 After what we can now see as an effort to demonstrate a clear uptick in administered vaccines per day, the renewed national roll out now fully subsidised by the Union Government is underway with the same underwhelming performance that has marked most endeavours since the beginning of 2020 when the PM promised […]
17 June 2021 “Do you know that laboratories conducted a lakh fake Corona Tests during the Kumbh?” Screamed the person in earshot to her companion, as the duo made their claim to the bench in the park. A version of this happened on Twitter when some people tagged others to this very same news. I […]
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 […]
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