-Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, January-June, 2020 This note analyses the impact of the Lockdown – which brought almost all economic and public activity in India to a halt – on a select group of villages based on a rapid assessment survey conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) in April 2020. The survey was conducted through telephone interviews of 52 informants from 21 villages across 10...
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Enforcing Lockdown indefinitely too disruptive, say public health experts -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu “Had the migrant persons been allowed to go home at the beginning of the epidemic when the disease spread was very low, the current situation could have been avoided,” says the joint letter by three public health organisations. A group of public health experts, two of whom are part of a government-constituted advisory committee to contain the pandemic, has said enforcing the Lockdown “indefinitely” would be too disruptive and “overtake...
More »Modi 2.0: Dark clouds have engulfed the nation -Sitaram Yechury
-Hindustan Times The government has undermined secular democracy; social justice; federalism; and economic self-reliance Surreal is, perhaps, the only way to describe marking of the first anniversary of the Modi 2.0 government. As the government data detailing the pre-coronavirus disease destruction of the economy and the consequent ruination of crores of lives during the last year was being released, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi was writing to all of us describing the...
More »12-year low -- and Before Covid
-The Telegraph 2019-20 economic growth tumbles to 4.2% India’s economic growth has tumbled to a 12-year low of 4.2 per cent in 2019-20. What is even worse is that this statistic barely reflects the impact of the coronavirus-induced Lockdown, which has silenced the clangour in its factories for over two months. The Lockdown began on March 25 — barely a week before the close of the financial year. “Due to a contraction in investment of...
More »A moment for civilisational introspection -Harsh Mander
-The Hindu There is a collective culpability in the social crime during the Lockdown — of the dispossession of India’s working poor The traumatic months of the national Lockdown lay bare many troubling truths about the profound estrangement of people of privilege from the working poor. They reveal a society in which the privileged are extraordinarily comfortable with inequality, and wanting in elementary empathy and solidarity. They confirm that the veneer of...
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