The Reserve Bank of India’s latest statistics of household savings and debt paint a dismal picture How badly has Covid 19 hit Indian household finances? The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) household savings and...
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Prosenjit Datta
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...
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...
Lockdown Diaries8: The Absence of Coordination
The center and the states are not discussing matters and that is marring the response to the pandemic The confusion in the resumption of domestic air travel is only the latest symptom of how little the centre and states...
No Country For Migrant Workers
The pandemic has bared the attitude of the authorities towards workers. As the lockdown keeps getting extended again and again, the attitude of the union government and the state governments towards migrant workers is...
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...
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 Diaries6: A Chain Broken
Every link in the logistics industry broke down. It will take a long time for normalcy to return. Even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his announcement at 8 pm on 24 March that a complete lockdown would be...
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...
