In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, Rohit Mahajan, President, Risk Advisory, Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta to discuss the increasing hack attacks, what governments and corporates can do to protect...
Author - Prosenjit Datta
Prosenjit Datta
The Bad and the Good of too much currency in circulation
The currency in circulation has risen exponentially. What are the implications? The total currency in circulation in India is rising inexorably. By the end of the first week of May 2021, it had crossed Rs 29 lakh crore...
Don’t Let Their Deaths Go in Vain
Every death is a tragedy. But lessons learnt from each death can help protect others. More than one thousand doctors have died in India due of Covid, according to the Indian Medical Association (IMA) – over 244 in the...
Monitor Those Vaccine Side Effects
Our system of tracking long term side effects and breakthrough infections leaves a lot to be desired The government has finally got around to admitting that some “potential thromboembolic events” – or formation of blood...
The Economic Costs of Not Vaccinating Everyone
This should be the question — not what is the cost of vaccinating At the time of writing this piece, heated arguments are taking place about the total cost of vaccination; who will pay; and how much they need to...
The Real Cost of Vaccinating Everyone
The union government’s role and the prices announced by the vaccine makers raises far too many disquieting questions. What is the total cost to the government of vaccinating everyone in India? The calculation is...
The Mystery of Covishield Pricing
The announcement of Serum Institute’s prices for state governments and private hospitals raise quite a few questions Serum Institute of India’s (SII) announcement of the Covishield prices it will charge the union...
Not Just Vaccination
While fixing vaccine supplies, the government also needs to take care of these three things it has ignored so far The government and the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) finally seem to have woken up to the...
What Ails India’s Vaccination Programme?
It is clear that not enough planning was done for the vaccination programe The lack of planning and sheer casualness with which India’s Covid vaccination programme was rolled out is becoming increasingly apparent every...
Covid: Tackling the New Wave
The vaccination programme needs to be speeded up. Here are some suggestions As a fresh wave of COVID cases engulfs the nation, the government needs to urgently rethink its options and move faster than it has so far...
