By Anirban Mukherjee
The workforce with higher education, however, decided to stay out of the workforce rather than accepting a low wage. This mechanism, if in place, will have critical policy implications.
Tag: COVID-19
By Paulomi Sharma
This pandemic has been the ultimate symbolic collaboration of human crisis and digital technology. And the camera has been its most potent ethical and cultural weapon in this endeavor.
By Prasasti Pandit
When you are expecting something, your sole focus will be on the result, however, when you are aiming for something, you are actually concentrating on the means to achieve that goal.
By Umang Kumar
what need of ceremony,
when the ritual of life
is over?
By Dipanjali Singh
In the midst of this destitution and #SOS tweets, Indians have been offered succour and solidarity from the people of Pakistan.
By Anandita Pathak & Aditya Ranjan Pathak
The Covid-19 situation in the country last year which took a critical turn fuelled the rise in cases of racism against the Northeastern population in the other metro cities of India where they migrate for higher education or work.
By Aishwarya Bhuta
Maybe it is time for Indian citizenry to bang pots and pans again, albeit in protest like the Brazilians against the insufficient policy responses and inability to prevent the catastrophe.
By Pooja Lakshman Rao
Mankind’s fundamental questions have always been “Who are we? Why are we here?” But looking at history, can we derive a strategy to conquer the planet like the first humans did?
By Umang Kumar
What shall we call you now, Delhi – the Killing Fields, pointing towards another massacre of innocents in recent history?
By Atreyee Majumder
What is the ethic of catastrophe? Does our everyday bourgeois morality of protecting ourselves while expressing grief for those suffering, still apply?
By Monica Yadav
Under the current conditions of a year into the pandemic and more infectious mutants of COVID-19 viruses causing another surge of infections and deaths, it feels as though we need to go back to the discussion of dignity of the living, the dying and the dead.
By Anuja Sarda
Some cultural biases and judgments shape the hiring process. This structure is basically designed to fail international students like me who are competing with other scholars who have the cultural capital.
By Mithilesh Kumar
It can even be said that it is only when these belligerents – pathogens and governments – engage in a “war” that pandemics are created.
By Sriti Ganguly
A bird in a bowing posture at sunset amused me and made me wonder whether it was in a contemplative mode or merely looking down at its feet to check if it is time for a pedicure.
By Gracy Samjetsabam
They send out a message that the future may be vague but man is determined to stay positive, adapt and adopt, which would bear fruit only if we respond and act in the spirit of “metanoia” and “togetherness”.
By Anjali V Raj
The pandemic life has become the new ordinary. I wonder if we would miss our life of social distancing and masks whence this is over.
By Swagata Ghosh
So far my usual reactions before this crisis have been to shake hands, to give a pat on one’s back, to tap one’s cheek, to ruffle one’s hair, to hold hands, to exchange hugs and the like, depending on the person I’m meeting or interacting with.
By Anindita Chakrabarty
It may become pertinent to ask if the global world order would unlearn, and move away from a neo-liberal regime that promotes privatisation to a more socialist one that emphasises wealth equality.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
I stand with all caregivers, family members, professional caregivers, all those who try to make things work a little, as we try to deal with increased stress in these times. We negotiate this stress by taking one small step at a time to make life pleasant and comfortable for our loved ones with dementia.
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