-TheWire.in Puja Changoiwala’s new novel begins with the announcement of the COVID-19 Lockdown. It then makes real a 900-km journey by a migrant family from Mumbai to Balhaar, Rajasthan. The idea of home is a fundamental human concept. We’re not taught about it at school, nor is there a pedagogy of ‘being at home,’ nevertheless, all of us have a sense of belonging that we associate with the word. Even those hunter-gatherers and...
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SC to Consider Hearing Plea Seeking Food, Welfare Measures for Migrant Workers During Third Covid Wave
-PTI/ News18.com The activists, in the fresh plea, have sought directions to the Centre to file a status report with respect to compliance of the directions given in the judgment delivered in June last year. The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would consider listing for hearing the fresh plea of activists seeking implementation of an earlier order on ensuring food security and other welfare measures for migrant workers who are again in...
More »Sexual harassment: Shut schools could mean greater risk for children -Binita Jaiswal
-The New Indian Express Experts say intervention needed as cases of abuse rose in Lockdown CHENNAI: With schools shut and children confined to their houses, activists are concerned about kids’ safety. This is because the number of child sexual harassment cases in Tamil Nadu increased during the previous Lockdown. Though schools are closed, teachers should regularly interact with students and enquire about their well-being, these activists say. “The number of sexual harassment cases...
More »Virtually Deprived: ‘Online Learning in India is a Sham’ -Medha Ghosh
-TheCitizen.in ‘They take our attendance and dismiss us’ KOLKATA: Joining many other states, the West Bengal government recently announced the imposition of another partial Lockdown till January 15. Schools and colleges in the state, which reopened in November for the first time since the pandemic was allowed to run rampage, have been fully closed once again. “It’s unfortunate that the educational institutions have taken 20 months to open. This effort of reopening institutions...
More »COVID crisis: Maharashtra brings back Lockdown like curbs; shuts down educational institutions
-PTI/ The New Indian Express Private offices have also been asked to rationalize the number of employees coming to work by allowing work from home and staggering working hours. MUMBAI: Tightening restrictions in the face of surging COVID-19 cases, the Maharashtra Government on Saturday prohibited movement in public in groups of five or more from 5 in the morning to 11 at night, effective January 10 midnight. Further, no movement will be allowed...
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