Image Courtesy: Getty Images "Can we turn our backs on equality? No government is legitimate that does not show equal concern for the fate of all those citizens over whom it claims dominion and from whom it claims allegiance. Equal concern is the sovereign virtue of political community-without it, government is only tyranny-and when a … Continue reading Economics and the Ethics of Inequality—Ritabrata Chakraborty
Tag: Pandemic
Discontents of Development: Lessons from the Baghjan Gas Tragedy—Riya Lohia
Residents of Notun Gaon Protesting (Image Courtesy: Noihrit) On 27 May, one of the gas wells at the Baghjan oil field in Assam’s Tinsukia district had a blowout. Fearing that this uncontrollable release of natural gas and oil condensate might catch fire, Oil India Limited called a team of experts from Singapore to contain the … Continue reading Discontents of Development: Lessons from the Baghjan Gas Tragedy—Riya Lohia
Beyond the Academic: Indian Higher Education System’s Encounter with the Pandemic—Ananyo Chakraborty
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ill-planned and hastily executed nationwide lockdown that ensued as a combative policy, have exposed the grave fault-lines intrinsic to the Indian higher education system like never before. With colleges and universities being shut down and the scope of physical interaction between students and teachers being cancelled out completely, a set … Continue reading Beyond the Academic: Indian Higher Education System’s Encounter with the Pandemic—Ananyo Chakraborty
Covid-19: The Next-Door Dystopia—Sujato Datta
Image Courtesy: PTI What should we do when dystopia is here? I pick up the copies of We, Brave New World, and 1984, which just appear to be simplified versions of the reality we live in. Since they are premised on ‘conditions of possibility’,dystopias as a literary category and their construction within a discourse have … Continue reading Covid-19: The Next-Door Dystopia—Sujato Datta
Biopolitics of Pandemic and the Cult of Stupidity in India—Suchintan Das
Image Courtesy: GCN The stranglehold of the Covid-19 pandemic on the world doesn’t seem to be losing strength. With over a million people infected and about sixty thousand of them dead already, the future appears rather bleak. Even if a possible end to this pandemic can be imagined, the costs—both humanitarian and economic—that it will … Continue reading Biopolitics of Pandemic and the Cult of Stupidity in India—Suchintan Das
A Pandemic Panning Across: Corona and the Questions It Asks—Ananyo Chakraborty
Courtesy: People's Archive of Rural India The Covid-19 or the novel Corona virus pandemic has affected vast sections of the world population and has already caused widespread damage in almost all aspects of human life. The world has come to a lockdown where people are being forced to self-isolate and not go outside to prevent … Continue reading A Pandemic Panning Across: Corona and the Questions It Asks—Ananyo Chakraborty
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