Coronavirus
In India, the pandemic is a prize for some and punishment..
0 comments | by Robert Gallimore
In India, the pandemic is a prize for some and punishment for others BBC news recently ran a piece on the Covid-19 pandemic in India. It was a seemingly equivocal survey of the obvious problems that would manifest themselves in a country with minimal welfare provisions and the sort of sanguinity regarding mortality r
Read Full ArticleWill India soon have the highest number of corona cases..
0 comments | by Ajmal Khan
Will India soon have the highest number of corona cases in the world? When Coronavirus hit China worst and then moved to Europe and the US India still had less number of Covid-19 cases and deaths due to Coronavirus. However, India had an early lockdown along with most of the worst hit countries and even after a month of lockdown Indi
Read Full ArticleCovid-19 has a grandma, grandpa and great grandpa...
0 comments | by MK Bhadrakumar
Covid-19 has a grandma, grandpa and great grandpa. Where are they? The search for the genesis of Covid-19 is developing into an epic story. Thanks to the insinuations by the US President Donald Trump — ‘China virus’, ‘Wuhan virus’, etc. — that were explosive in their political and strategic content
Read Full ArticleThe Phony War on the Coronavirus
0 comments | by Pankaj Mishra
Leaders everywhere are ramping up the martial rhetoric, in part to back their critics into a corner. Governments around the world say they’re engaged in a war against the coronavirus. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked the legend of the Mahabharata, fought over 18 days, as he declared, with little warning, a
Read Full ArticleMigrant workers killed in latest tragedy amid India virus lockdown
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Stranded migrant labourers in Chennai, in southeastern India, prepare to board a special train to take them home after the government eased lockdown measures Five Indian migrant workers died when the mango-laden truck they hid in to evade the virus lockdown overturned, police said Sunday, adding to a rising death toll among the country's poorest labourers.
Read Full ArticleIndia using coronavirus against Muslims as typhus used against Jews: Arundhati
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She said the Indian government was exploiting the coronavirus outbreak to inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims and as a tactic reminiscent of one used by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Its ideologues have likened the Muslims of India to the Jews of Germany. And if you look at the way in which th
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