coronavirus lockdown

A year after a summer of death, a COVID-19 survivor recalls trauma, helplessness and grief
Health / Essay
A year after a summer of death, a COVID-19 survivor recalls trauma, helplessness and grief
Vineeta Sharma
The Indian government used the pandemic to craft a political image and failed to save lives
Health / Excerpt
The Indian government used the pandemic to craft a political image and failed to save lives
Vidya Krishnan , Sarah Nabia
Communities / The Lede Welfare organisations help Kashmiris navigate the COVID-19 lockdown Mir Seeneen
Health / Photo Essay Healthcare efforts fighting the COVID-19 crisis in rural India Harsha Vadlamani
Health / News “Every day I was in fear”: How the lives of UP’s teachers were risked for an election Akhilesh Pandey
Media / The Lede An online journal chronicles stories of lockdown from around the world Saumya Kalia
Communities / News UP government’s schemes and grants are failing to reach people with disabilities: RTI Abhishek Sahu
Labour / News If I don’t get work, I’ll survive by begging: Rampukar Pandit, the face of Bihar’s migrant workers Umesh Kumar Ray
Education / News Wayanad’s Adivasi students protest against institutional discrimination in education Aathira Konikkara
Health / News Collateral damage of COVID-19: People whose cancer, TB and kidney disease got worse Akhilesh Pandey
Technology / News How Swiggy threatened to “suspend” protesting Delhi workers after second pay cut in seven months Nishant Kauntia
Policy / Commentary India’s pandemic response needed Ambedkar’s vision of social security and public health Jadumani Mahanand
Government and Policy / News Cancelled ration cards deprived Telangana’s poor of food rations amid lockdown Tushar Dhara
Politics / Commentary Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat is a thinly veiled blueprint of the RSS’s “Hindu Economics” Sagar
Health / News Bihar health workers say the state did little to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic Zumbish
Government / News Bihar residents say they did not receive free ration supplies during the lockdown Zumbish
Politics / Commentary For the RSS, “sewa” is a means to achieve the Hindu Rashtra Sagar
Health / News With no government oversight, profiteering industries flood Indian markets with toxic sanitisers Jatinder Kaur Tur
Politics / News 736 Sangh Parivar NGOs qualified for government funds, subsidised rations during the COVID-19 lockdown Sagar
Politics / News How the RSS co-opted local administrations for its relief interventions during the COVID-19 lockdown Sagar
Health / News Acute financial distress brought on by the COVID-19 lockdown is leading to suicides Sunil Kashyap
Labour / News COVID-19: Dominant-caste panchayats in Punjab pass resolutions to reduce labour wages Jatinder Kaur Tur
Health / News Amid COVID, centre’s conflicting guidelines were disastrous for India’s eye-donation programme Akhilesh Pandey
Politics / List Fact Check: The lies and misdirections of the Modi government during the coronavirus lockdown Ahan Penkar
Health / News The Bihar government failed at nearly every level to prepare for the annual AES epidemic Saurav Kumar
Caste / News Caste atrocities in Tamil Nadu have increased nearly fivefold in lockdown: Dalit organisations Sujatha Sivagnanam
Economy / Commentary Why the relief package will not undo the lockdown’s destruction of the MSMEs Himanshu
Government / Commentary How the union government is undermining states’ fight against COVID-19 Nilakantan RS
Media / Commentary What Solicitor General Tushar Mehta does not understand about the media Vidya Krishnan
Communities / News Migrants from the northeast are stuck between hostile employers and unemployment at home Kimi Colney
Health / News Members of PM’s COVID-19 task force say lockdown failed due to unscientific implementation Vidya Krishnan, Aathira Konikkara
Health / News Struggling for over a month, hundreds of workers leave Delhi’s Khizrabad to walk to Bihar Akhilesh Pandey