08 June 2021 You can say that media will keep debating all the wrong things, without even looking up print media or even the chancing channel surfing, only because, you know come what may, no discussion or opinion is going to deliberate on the matrix of what was and is, the reality of this pandemic […]
Tag: #Covid19
WMD: The Corona Whodunit?
02 June 2021 It must be the most bizarre idea which over the days and months, got into textured layering and nuance that we are now witness to what can be called the acknowledging of the plausible…The origin of this SARS CoV2 has been such an humdinger! In a normal course of our human experience, […]
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 […]
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 […]
India’s Covid Fight Back
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 […]
13 April 2021 Two cases were widely discussed in social media and news media- one of a verbal assault on a Covid Administrator in a Government Hospital in MP and another of a youth dying in Bengaluru without gaining access to a ICU bed with ventilator. Both were actually related, as is the more recent […]
08 April 2021 If there is one major defining moment for this Pandemic it is actually the role of populism and by extension prejudices in the management of the Pandemic so far. More than a year later, one cannot do much on Twitter other than report a handle in categories other than what it should […]
08 March 2021 Shailaja Teacher can take a bow even now. It is not possible to sustain a campaign over a year is what folks will have us believe in India. Of course, God’s own country first responded with the memory and the strength of having dealt with Nipah an experience the rest of India […]
14 October 2020 One of the key elements that sort of put people off was all the models that initially estimated that our known world would get overwhelmed by the pandemic. What most people who now pooh poohed these models then and now, do not understand is that with whatever little understanding they had of […]