The opinion section of ThePrint is the Big Tent of ideas, debates, and scholarship – one that brings views from across the political and ideological spectrum. In 2020, people from diverse backgrounds wrote on various topics – from the Covid crisis to the ensuing lockdown to the Ldakah standoff. Here is a selection of the best of opinion.
At current rate, India can see 30,000 COVID-19 deaths by May, no hospital bed by June: Data
Rukmini S
The response of various Indian states to Covid-19 will differ as the poorest states have the weakest capacity to deliver health services.
India’s Fingers have come under Chinese boots. Denial won’t help us
Lt Gen H S Panag (retd)
The Narendra Modi government and the Indian military have gone into ‘denial’ about the loss of territory, attributing the current situation to differing perceptions about the LAC.
Uddhav Thackeray has failed to handle Covid crisis. Bring in Army to save Mumbai
Tuhin A. Sinha
As coronavirus spreads through the slums of Mumbai, there isn’t much hope resting on Uddhav Thackeray’s state government to contain it. Look at its blunders so far.
Modi’s poorly planned lockdown won’t save us from coronavirus, but will kill economy
Shivam Vij
With typically shoddy execution, Modi’s national curfew could starve Indians to death — and not even save them from the coronavirus.
I trained IAF’s 1st batch of women pilots. ‘Gunjan Saxena’ gets a lot wrong
Wg Cdr I.K. Khanna (retd)
When the first batch of women pilots arrived at the Air Force Station at Yelahanka in 1994, they were treated no differently by the IAF. Unlike what ‘Gunjan Saxena’ shows.
My camera had ‘evidence’ of Babri Masjid demolition, but it was consigned to bin of history
Praveen Jain
I know what I saw on 5 December 1992, in Ayodhya. My camera was witness to the rehearsal that was undertaken by the kar sevaks.
Pakistanis know a lot about Dawood Ibrahim. The don lives in White House, drives a black taxi
Naila Inayat
Javed Miandad, the don’s relative, has announced his intentions to join politics. He might one day become the prime minister, but of a Dawood-less Pakistan.
Modi faces no political costs for suffering he causes. He’s just like Iran’s Ali Khamenei
Asim Ali
It astounds many that Narendra Modi didn’t even acknowledge the migrant crisis or the loss of jobs in his Atmanirbhar Bharat speech. And yet there is no anger with him.
Kangana Ranaut can’t become Manikarnika. She lost the support of millions of Jhalkari Bais
Dilip Mandal
Kangana Ranaut only needs to rewatch her film Manikarnika to know where she went wrong. Especially the five-minute role of one of the Jhansi commanders, Jhalkari Bai.
Modi got all the credit for lockdown. Now, he wants states to share risk of unlocking India
Rama Lakshmi
Having won accolades for the bold decision to impose nationwide lockdown, Narendra Modi knows that both extension and easing of it will now bring diminishing political returns.