We have little influence over what governments will do to combat Covid. What we have is the power to think and act in ways that will make the suffering bearable.
The 123-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act isn’t good enough for a pandemic in the Information Age. India must revisit the National Health Bill that wasn’t passed.
The WHO’s sluggish, almost reluctant response to the coronavirus crisis raises serious questions about its accountability towards the global community.
China's secrecy, ambitions, and disregard for life or environment are a problem. But so are the weapons-producing labs in US, Russia, France, Japan, North Korea and others.
India’s trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and mobile communications — or JAM — can work wonders if it is used extensively to reform citizen–state engagement.
With the agriculture sector employing 45% of the workforce but accounting for only 15% of GDP, it confirms that two-thirds of India’s workforce engages in low-productivity work.
Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
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