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India’s pandemic response needed Ambedkar’s vision of social security and public health

Policy / Commentary

India’s pandemic response needed Ambedkar’s vision of social security and public health

Jadumani Mahanand

Cancelled ration cards deprived Telangana’s poor of food rations amid lockdown

Government and Policy / News

Cancelled ration cards deprived Telangana’s poor of food rations amid lockdown

Health / News Struggling for over a month, hundreds of workers leave Delhi’s Khizrabad to walk to Bihar Akhilesh Pandey

Health / News UP government’s universal PDS not implemented in Loni; Muslim residents struggle for food Nileena MS

Health / Commentary History suggests deprivation will be an ally to COVID-19, and both must be stopped Nikhil Eapen

Policy / Interview “Aadhaar-enabled savings are nothing but government-sponsored propaganda”: Jean Drèze on social-welfare programmes under the NDA government Sagar

Policy / Reportage Despite the constitution of a panel to probe deaths, Jharkhand’s hunger crisis is likely to worsen Sagar

Technology / News How Aadhaar and Digitisation Compounded Problems of Corruption, Leakages and Exclusion Plaguing the PDS in Jharkhand Sagar

Policy / Commentary The “national shame” of malnutrition is a politically institutionalised, invisible shame of long standing Himanshu