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Covid-19
Firefighting on the agriculture front
RN Bhaskar – 8 April 2020
The central government has moved swiftly to contain what could be both a humanitarian disaster and a political blunder. On 3 April, Ajay Bhalla, home secretary, government of India wrote...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/coronavirus-pandemic-slums-are-new-hotspots-that-can-ravage-cities-5090381.html
Coronavirus: the epidemic could easily ravage cities through its many slums
RN Bhaskar -- 31 March, 2020
Last week, the government of Maharashtra formally acknowledged a new problem – slums (https://www.mumbailive.com/en/civic/coronavirus-spreads-to-mumbai-slums-and-chawls-in-ghatkopar-kalina-and-patel-as-4-patients-test-positive-for-covid19-47281). Coronavirus which had spread among the relatively affluent had now...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/amid-the-coronavirus-outbreak-heres-indias-toughest-question-can-indias-slum-dwellers-follow-a-lockdown
Covid-19: India’s agony of slums
RN Bhaskar - March 28, 2020
The sins of the past are to be heaped on the present. And nothing could be more frightening than slums – both for people outside and for those trapped inside. ...
Moneycontrol carried a modified version of this article at https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/coronavirus-pandemic-an-opportunity-to-overhaul-indias-ailing-healthcare-sector-5079501.html
Coronavirus II –
Needed an overhaul of medicare: more free testing, more accountability
RN Bhaskar
The first part of this series appeared at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-risk-contagion-india/
On the night of 24 March, the prime minister informed...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/covid-19-march-will-soon-become-a-terrifying-sprint-in-india
Covid-19 -- the government has been caught swimming naked
RN Bhaskar
Today is Tuberculosis (TB) Day. Unlike coronavirus, where a vaccine has yet to be developed – it could take anywhere between a year to several years – tuberculosis has a...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/coronavirus-pandemic-the-risk-of-a-contagion-in-india-5065321.html
Coronavirus confirms government apathy for human lives
RN Bhaskar -- March 24, 2020
Testing and more testing is only way to know the extent of the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
India is in a lockdown, trying to evade the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/how-to-bounce-back-post-coronavirus
Using Coronavirus as an opportunity for doing other things
March 21, 2020
Everybody’s been talking about Coronavirus and its impact on lives and economies.
While India fights the virus, it also needs to strategise on life after the outbreak is over. In...
An edited version of this article appeared at https://www.cnbctv18.com/healthcare/coronavirus-what-india-can-learn-from-singapore-in-fighting-the-disease-5508351.htm
Coronavirus: lessons from Singapore
RN Bhaskar -- 18 March 2020
India is in various stages of a lockdown. In many cities and even states, schools and colleges have been closed. People have...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/coronavirus-nobody-likes-epidemics-but-dont-demonise-countries
COVID-19 is a global emergency
RN Bhaskar -- 27 February, 2020
All epidemics are terrifying, as they defy man’s capabilities -- of how to cope with them, even if temporarily. They frighten both common folk as well as health administrators.
It is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/fpj-initiatives/the-government-is-destroying-indias-milk-industry
Bypassing NDDB in milk imports will cripple the industry
RN Bhaskar -- 17 February 2020
The trade is clamouring for import of milk power. They say that production of milk has not been as much as had been expected this and...
