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...
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Prosenjit Datta
Bad Data and Policy Making
Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the...
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...
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 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...
