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TOPIC - Vaccine skirmishes: On production of COVID-19 vaccine
“IPR waiver will not bring immediate benefits; the effort must be to share the stockpile”
The Biden administration’s...
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TOPIC - Assam discord: On BJP’s brand of identity politics
"The BJP’s kind of identity politics is difficult to sustain over the longer term"
A combination...
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TOPIC - Hat-trick: On Mamata Banerjee’s third term
“The onus is on Ms. Banerjee to end violence and triumphalism of her supporters”
Mamata Banerjee was sworn...
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TOPIC - Lend a hand
“RBI measures to ease to healthflows sector, small businesses are welcome. Greater government support is needed.”
On Wednesday, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das...
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TOPIC – Keeping Left: On Kerala Assembly election results
“By reposing faith in the LDF, Kerala voters have sent a message to Congress and BJP...
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TOPIC – Smaller, smarter
“A new study questions the assumption that bigger brains is a sign of intelligence.”
Humans pride themselves on being the blue-eyed children...
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TOPIC – Congrats all, now please get to work
“West Bengal has resoundingly rejected polarising alternative offered by BJP; strong regional leaders will shape pushback...
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TOPIC - Listening & learning
“A judge wants to understand LGBTQI+ matters and ‘evolve’. Other authority figures must follow his example”
In a welcome subversion of...
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TOPIC – Don’t look away
“World will fail Myanmar if a brutal military is allowed to crush the people. ASEAN plan can be a beginning...
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TOPIC – New Delhi
“Government in Delhi will henceforth mean LG’s office, amid a crisis that warns against dangers of centralisation”
In the midst of a...
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TOPIC - Punishing process
“As custodian of individual liberties, SC must prevent due process from becoming punishment. It must fast track cases”
Eleven MPs from Kerala...
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TOPIC – Failing the test
“It took a tsunami of outrage to wake someone up in Washington. India's vaccine diplomacy hurt domestic needs.”
After a week...
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TOPIC – Centre’s second shot
“Vaccine can’t be the new oxygen. It needs centralised procurement, decentralised distribution.”
The Centre’s Covid-19 vaccine strategy revolving around differential pricing and decentralised...
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TOPIC – Economy alert
“The impact of Covid surge on the economy depends on how effectively key supply gaps are plugged”
The relentless surge in Covid-19...
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TOPIC – Time to breathe
“Conviction in the George Floyd case is a victory for pushback and due process. There are lessons closer home”
In the...
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TOPIC - Need to address
“PM Modi’s assurance on lockdown is welcome but curve has to bend. Oxygen to vaccines, critical gaps in policy need...
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TOPIC – Jab and push
“Centre’s new vaccine roadmap will help in the much-needed ramp-up; it also raises some critical questions”
With the relentless surge in Covid-19 infections...
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TOPIC - Disease politics
“My crowd versus your crowd, BJP versus Congress — parties should fight the virus, not each other”
As the Covid second wave...
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TOPIC – Secure the Classroom
“Let school teachers and school staff jump vaccine line, rethink board exams: cancelling shouldn’t be the only response to crisis”
The...
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TOPIC – Crack the Virus
“We need to know if the coronavirus has become more infectious or lethal. A higher rate of genome sequencing is...
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TOPIC –The Vaccine Basket
“Clearance for more vaccines couldn’t have come a day too soon. Now government should smoothen wrinkles on pricing, delivery.”
On Tuesday, India’s...
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Topic - Lowering the mask
“Celebrating massive poll rallies, letting lakhs gather for a dip undermine public-health messaging in the second surge.”
There is little doubt...