Opinion & Edits

Heed the Covid SOS from children

We can defeat the virus. All of us must put shoulders to the wheel

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that Centre dropped ball on Covid preparedness

Why the BJP lost Bengal

May 10, 1980, Forty Years Ago: Integration Agency

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on May 10, 1980.

Her due opportunity

Woman voter is making herself heard. But political parties must do more to fix gender deficit in political representation.

We can defeat the virus. All of us must put shoulders to the wheel

The national leadership needs to set up a war room comprising top medical experts and corporate leaders to ramp up supplies of oxygen and necessary drugs and mobilise logistics to deliver these to last mile.

Why the BJP lost Bengal

Every time Modi addressed his rival as “Didi-o-didi”, it alienated voters, especially women.

Heed the Covid SOS from children

We need to offer spaces to our children, to vent, to throw tantrums, show pain, anger and angst. Our empathy, patience and compassion will help them to cope and contend with the prevailing uncertainty and dislocation.

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that Centre dropped ball on Covid preparedness

If states had taken the Centre’s early warnings and feedback more seriously, the current surge would not have been as fierce.

The UP model or how not to face a pandemic

Nowhere else in the world has anti-terrorist legislation been invoked to threaten citizens voicing their needs during a pandemic, adding fear to their despair.

Unfair to the Election Commission

Madras High Court’s remarks about EC being responsible for current Covid wave do damage to the institution, do not reflect facts on the ground

Not funny, Mr Kher!

Anupam Kher’s defence of the Centre’s Covid-19 management is a regurgitation of official proclamations.

Is PM Modi privately tormented by the disease and death that has spread across India on his watch?

PM Modi has always boasted of his image as a strong and decisive leader. This is the time for him to prove that he is.

‘I can’t breathe’… my oxygen journey

“I can’t breathe”, the last words of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, are echoing in many hospitals in India today.

When my baby got sick with Covid-19

Fortunately, babies are a lot more resilient than what we give them credit for. And that’s what we really need to remember, especially when Covid-19 comes floating in.

Modi vs Didi and other battles

Ms Banerjee’s defining image was her wheelchair-bound campaign. The wheelchair triumphed over the cheap cat-call. No less absorbing was the battle for Kerala where the UDF lost to the LDF.

Recent explosion of Covid-19 cases in Delhi has impacted practically every second home

The signs of impending doom were all around, so how could our planners have failed to respond with greater urgency?

D L Seth influenced a generation of academics, activists with his ideas on democracy

His primary legacy was as mentor to scores of activists who played a key role in many struggles for justice – from grassroots efforts to counter communalism to struggles against “destructive development”

Ramping up medical oxygen production, distribution can save lives

Use of the existing government supply lines, for example, the 5,05,879 fair price shops (part of Public Distribution System), can be one solution. These are distributed through the length and breadth of the country. The use of LPG cylinder distributors can also be explored.

May 8, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Indira Exonerated

The Opposition did not participate in the four-and-a-half hour debate, having walked out after an uproarious 100-minute discussion in protest against the Speaker’s decision to admit the motion moved by Baliram Bhagat of the Congress.

Sound of the new wave

Vanraj Bhatia took the road less travelled, gave parallel cinema movement a rare and versatile music

Stalin’s turn

As Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, he is new face of Dravidian politics, could play a role in federal pushback by states

Patently fair

Biden’s proposal for liberal IPR regime on Covid vaccines is welcome. EU must shed its intransigence

BJP’s Assam triumph has one caveat: Akhil Gogoi

Sanjib Baruah writes: Despite the electoral failure of the anti-CAA platform, Gogoi’s victory might prove to be politically consequential in coming months.

Anupam Kher is wrong. The buck stops with the government

Sanjay Jha writes: Centre, PM must be held accountable for the current Covid wave.

Our silence against forces of hate has enabled this Covid crisis

Harsh Mander writes: Current moment in pandemic points to systematic undermining of countervailing institutions, and to people’s complicity in cheering an uncaring and incompetent state.

Vaccines should be accessible but not mandatory

With so many fears and uncertainties looming, coercive measures to administer vaccines will only create further panic