The Prime Minister’s vision of making India a manufacturing powerhouse has not been backed by coherent policy making When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in his latest address to citizens the big new thrust to...
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Prosenjit Datta
Lockdown: The Chaos Continues
So far, the union government’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic has been more theatrics and less planning and good execution Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a flair for dramatics and a yen for suspense. He...
Liquor is Quicker
Candy may be dandy but alcohol gives immediate revenues to state governments – and that is why they want liquor retailing to be allowed now When the national lockdown was announced, the union government left...
An Exploding Humanitarian Crisis
The 40-day lockdown may well flatten the curve. But for the poor and the ailing, the treatment prescribed may be worse than the disease. Twenty-seven days into the national lockdown, it is apparent that the union...
Wasting a Lockdown
The first 21 days have been frittered away by the Union government. The remaining period should be utilised properly. Whether India should have imposed a national lockdown when relatively few cases of Coronavirus had...
Lockdown Diaries5: What Is An Essential Product?
Essential goods and services should be available uninterrupted said the Prime Minister. But who decides what is essential and what is not? “Essential”— The Dictionary defines it as “completely necessary” or...
Lockdown Diaries4: The Last Mile Man
The delivery boys had to bear the brunt of the chaos following the lockdown announcement As far as the social and financial hierarchy goes, the delivery boy – or delivery partner, as online businesses like to...
Lockdown Diaries3: Out In The Cold
Individual states are scrambling to take care of migrant workers and others, without any help from the union government (28 March 2020) The first instalment of the Lock Down Diaries (26 March 2020 ) had dealt with the...
Lockdown Diaries2: Medical and Non-Medical Issues
Doctors and other healthcare workers are finding that they need to fight much more than just the disease. In the first few days of the nationwide lockdown, as local administrations still struggled to get their act...
Lockdown Diaries1: Flotsam and Jetsam
The lockdown was announced without the slightest plan about what to do about the poor and the homeless and the migrant labour 26 March 2020: Two days into the lockdown – five days really given that most states had...
