For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Neeraj Bunkar While the whole world is fighting with the Corona pandemic, India too has not been able to keep itself out of its grasp. On January 30th, 2020, the first case in India was reported in Kerala. The number rose to 3 by the February 5th, when some students returned to India from China’s …
Dr. Narayan Bhosale People from nomadic communities did not understand the precise meaning of this lockdown during the period of pandemic. If they did, it was already late; if it wasn’t too late, then they were frustrated due to the helpless state it put them in. Nomadic communities have been stranded on the streets …
Vishal Verma The politics in India which has continuously been called ‘democractic’ has sustained for more than 70 years. With riots and uprisings[i] having been an intrinsic part of it. Where the former, has always been advantageous for Indian democracy to consolidate its power through the mediation of an institutionally centralised state form. The latter, …
Subodh Kunwer Has the Corona virus pandemic become something other than a medical subject/disease? The handling of this pandemic brought many crises, events and spectacles to the fore. While on one side lives of people are being lost, on the other we are witnessing the theatrical, performative aspect of the pandemic. Jennifer Cooke in …
രഘു ഇരവിപേരൂർ (Round Table India is doing a series to put together the Bahujan perspective on the Coronavirus pandemic) രാകേഷ് റാം എസ്: ഇന്ത്യയിൽ കോവിഡ്-19 ആദ്യ കേസ് തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞത് കേരളത്തിലാണ്. അതിനെതിരെ ഏറ്റവും കാര്യക്ഷമതയോടെ പ്രതികരിച്ചതും കേരളമാണ്. ആദ്യം തൊട്ടു ബോധവത്കരണമുണ്ടായിട്ടും പ്രവാസികളിൽ ചിലർ(കൂടുതലും അധികാരം കൈയ്യേറുന്നവരും അത് കൊണ്ട് തന്നെ നിയന്ത്രണങ്ങൾ ഒരിക്കലും പാലിക്കാൻ താല്പര്യമില്ലാത്തവരും) മുന്നറിയിപ്പുകൾ അവഗണിക്കുകയും ഹോം ക്വാറന്റൈന്‍ പാലിക്കാതെ സമൂഹത്തിൽ ഇറങ്ങി നടക്കുകയും …
Amarnath Sandipamu & Deepu Myneni (Round Table India is doing a series to put together the Bahujan perspective on the Coronavirus pandemic) Anu Ramdas: It is well known that pandemics can and do facilitate totalitarian regimes to accelerate their ideologies when society is under the threat of the disease. We wanted to document the …
Lochan Sharma & Manish Kumar Sharma COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus, spreading primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes and is not an air borne disease, clarified WHO recently. On March 11, 2020, ‘deeply concerned’ World Health Organization (WHO) declared …
Pradnya Jadhav (SAVARI and Round Table India are doing a series to put together the Bahujan perspective on the Coronavirus pandemic) Anu: How are the people at home and the neighbourhood responding, and preparing for the prolonged lockdown due to the pandemic? Pradnya: I would say, uncertainty prevails. First of all, there is no clear …
Date: 1st April, 2020 To,Hon’ble Chief Minister and Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister,Government of Maharashtra Subject: Immediate Assistance for COVID19 affected people in Mumbai slum areas The novel COVID19 i.e. Coronavirus infection has spread at a very fast pace all over the world. Even if the government has taken all appropriate steps from time to …