Let Not Education Suffer

Let Not Education Suffer

Pannalal Surana | Serious efforts will have to be made to restart the schools at least by the last week of June. There are problems and difficulties. In urban areas, classrooms are generally overcrowded. If the time-table of last year is to be followed, social distancing will come to a nought. Some persons have suggested that schools be held in three shifts after trifurcation the class strength.

Desperate Times Call for Radical Measures: COVID-19 and the Need for the Immediate Nationalisation of the Indian Healthcare Sector

Desperate Times Call for Radical Measures: COVID-19 and the Need for the Immediate Nationalisation of the Indian Healthcare Sector

Asmita Verma, Surabhi Agarwal and Bobby Ramakant | What could be a better way to scale up testing and increase hospitalization capacity and access in the country than to nationalise the private health sector? This would be far more effective than trying to negotiate pricing caps with the profit-seeking lobby of private healthcare.

निजी कम्पनियों पर तीन वर्षों के लिए मुनाफा कमाने पर रोक क्यों नहीं?

निजी कम्पनियों पर तीन वर्षों के लिए मुनाफा कमाने पर रोक क्यों नहीं?

अरुंधती धुरू व संदीप पाण्डेय | यदि मजदूरों से बलिदान की अपेक्षा की जा सकती है तो अन्य लोगों, खासकर पूंजीपति वर्ग से क्यों नहीं जिसके पास अपनी जरूरत से ज्यादा जमा की हुई कमाई है। यदि मजदूरों से यह अपेक्षा की जा रही है कि वे न्यूनतम काम के घंटे अथवा न्यूनतम मजदूरी जैसे अपने अधिकारों को छोड़ दें तो पूंजीपति वर्ग से यह क्यों नहीं कहा जा सकता कि वह अगले तीन वर्षों के लिए अपना मुनाफा छोड़ दे।

Pro-Corporate Thrust of Economic Package Flies in the Face of ‘Atma-Nirbharta!

Pro-Corporate Thrust of Economic Package Flies in the Face of ‘Atma-Nirbharta!

Pictures of migrant workers who have lost their livelihoods struggling to go back to their home towns – walking hundreds of kilometres in the scorching heat of the summer sun, with children, elderly and meagre belongings – are something that history will remember as a shameful period when lakhs of fellow human beings were allowed to face such indignities while the ‘powers-that-be’, watched on.