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BYRAVI DUGGALAPRIL 10, 2021 Analysing the data for COVID-19 prevalence rates, relative population sizes and vaccine coverage across Indian states, RAVI DUGGAL explains why India needs a better and more scientific vaccine disbursal policy, and how to rampantly boost our vaccine production… Continue Reading →
byPrakash KaratApril 9, 2021 As India grapples with a second nation-wide COVID-19 infection wave, PRAKASH KARAT writes about how the Union Government has failed to devise a diligent response even after one full year of dealing with the pandemic and provides recommendations… Continue Reading →
BYPRATIKSHA BAXIANDNAVSHARAN SINGHAPRIL 4, 2021 All women and gender and sexual minorities are ‘custodial’ minorities and should be released from prison during the pandemic, write PRATIKSHA BAXI and NAVSHARAN SINGH. This is an extract from “Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison,” a chapter… Continue Reading →
Among the high risk areas 34% belong to regions with high biodiversity. Again, 19% of the high risk areas are in low and lower middle income countries while five per cent belong to areas where water scarcity is high. BYSANDIPAN… Continue Reading →
Farm laws are being seen as a move meant to target the autonomy of the gram sabhas leading to inroads of the corporates on adivasi land and further widening of the balance of power between adivasi peasantry and big businesses.Sumedha… Continue Reading →
KALPANA KANNABIRAN ‘This unfinished Sisyphean struggle has not made me tire of it but I have been spared of the futile struggle with which Sisyphus was condemned; mine has been the struggle for a better world and the struggle is… Continue Reading →
By Simi Mehta, Anshula Mehta The law in India never uses the word ‘desire’. There is no law of desire or vocabulary present in the State that talks about desire. However, this “term can refer to a gamut of things… Continue Reading →
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 21, 2021, 19:39 IST NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday wrote to the Uttarakhand government and highlighted the need for stringent measures to control the spread of Covid-19 during the ongoing Kumbh Mela in the state. A high… Continue Reading →
By JYOTI PUNWANI ‘At 23, he has experienced what very few of his age have: Poverty at home, a stint in jail for his student activism.’‘His experience told him that if you want your rights, you have to fight for them.’… Continue Reading →
By Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly, Rejitha Nair* The year 2021 in Gujarat opened its account with 647 alleged land grabbing cases under investigation, 16 FIRs filed against 34 land grabbers within 35 days of Gujarat Land Grabbing Prohibition Act 2020 (GLGPA), as informed by… Continue Reading →