THE blight of the pandemic which has caused mass suffering and deaths during the second wave is now compounded by the manifold miseries inflicted on the people by the Modi government.  The people are experiencing unemployment, falling incomes and hunger.  On top of this comes the rising inflation and price rise of essential commodities – a creation of the policies of the government. In the months of April and May, 2.2 crore (22 million) people lost their jobs.

NOT a day passes without some attack on the federal structure and infringement on states’ rights taking place. If one day, the centre unilaterally announced a vaccine policy whereby states are asked to procure vaccines and pay for them, then another day, the chief secretary of West Bengal is summoned to Delhi to report for duty on the day of his retirement.  The next time, the centre is stepping in to prevent the Delhi government from implementing its door-step delivery of rations.  On another occasion, the Punjab government finds that the centre has stopped the payment under the Rural Deve

THE union territory of Lakshadweep is a group of islands which are home to around 65,000 people.  These quiet, peace-loving people are being subjected to a ruthless regime which seeks to deprive them of their way of life, livelihoods, food and cultural rights. The plague on the island did not come in the form of the Covid-19 virus first, but when a new administrator took charge in December 2020.  Till then, all previous administrators had been IAS officers.  For the first time, a politician from Gujarat was appointed.  Praful Khoda Patel was an MLA in Gujarat previously who had also been a

WEEKS have gone by since the disastrous second Covid-19 wave unfolded, but the Modi government refuses to realise the folly of its ways and rectify its policies.The supreme court hearing the Covid pandemic issue had raised valid questions and expressed reservations about the vaccine policy of the centre.

THE Covid-19 tragedy that is unfolding in India is of truly epic proportions.  There is the scandal of people dying because of lack of oxygen in hospitals; there is the scandal of lack of hospital beds and medicines; there is the scandal of deaths due to Covid being covered up and there is the scandal of the vaccine shortage and profiteering sanctioned by the government.